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First of all, you've put together a great list and I plan to download several of these gems.
However, I must point out a couple of free packages that I see used all day and every day by IT people supporting Unix/Linux servers from desktop Windows PCs. The most useful of these has to be "PuTTY", the free terminal app with great support for OpenSSH/SSL Secure Shell sessions (for those Unix support teams where 'telnet' and 'ftp' are verboten, for sending passwords and everything else in clear-text). Another great app is "nmap" for probing network vulnerabilities. You may want to let your network admin know before running this in all-out mode on your LAN - it has a tendency to set off a few net intruder alarms, and it can highlight local security weaknesses that certain others in your group may not be exactly thrilled about having to explain to their superiors. Supposedly, Intel once had a visiting journalist arrested by the police, just for running a similar network scan on Intel's internal network, without written approval in advance (ouch!).

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