Terminal emulators are computer programs that reproduce a video terminal within some other display structure. In other words, the Terminal emulator has the ability to make a dumb machine appear like a client computer networked to the server.
The terminal emulator allows an end-user to access the console as well as its applications such as text user interface and command-line interface. Learn about some of the top Linux terminal emulators on the market.
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