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There are several MUSH clients available for several operating systems. Here's just a few, together with links to their websites:

Recommended Clients

These are clients that, in the opinion of the administration, give you the best available playing experience on Corporate Expanse: From the Cradle. While the other ones listed here would work, they are far from optimal.

Windows 98 and Later

• MUSHclient, by Nick Gammon, is one of the oldest and most widely-used MUSH clients available. It is free and open-source, and supports extensive customisation while still being easy to use. Linux users will be interested to know that it works superbly in WINE.
• Potato, by Mike Griffiths, is a newer cross-platform client with an interface reminiscent of SimpleMU (see below). It is free and open-source. Unlike SimpleMU, however, it supports everything on From the Cradle and is currently maintained. It comes in a single executable file, making it easy to move around computers on a flash drive. It is also available for Linux, and a Mac OS X port is in the works.

Linux, BSD, and other Unicies

• TinyFugue, by Ken Keys, is the seminal UNIX-based MUSH client. It supports literally everything and can be customised beyond belief, as well as being free and open-source. However, it can be difficult to use for new users and does not have a GUI, running exclusively on the console. People tend to either love TinyFugue or hate it.
• Potato, by Mike Griffiths, is a newer cross-platform client with an interface reminiscent of SimpleMU (see below). It is free and open-source. Unlike SimpleMU, however, it supports everything on From the Cradle and is currently maintained. It comes in a single binary, making it easy to move around computers on a flash drive. It is also available for Windows, and a Mac OS X port is in the works.

Mac OS X

• Atlantis, by Riverdark Studios, is a new and popular MU* client for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. As this chronicler does not own a Macintosh, he can't say too much about it, but hopefully someone else can! It is free of charge, but closed-source.

Other Clients

These clients may be popular or even seminal, but for whatever reason they aren't the best for playing From the Cradle. This doesn't mean they're bad, though, and if you like them stick with them.

Windows

• SimpleMU by Kathleen MacMahon is one of the oldest and most widely-used Windows MUSH clients. It is small, fast, exceptionally simple, and surprisingly feature-rich. However, it is also shareware (most features are available for a free download but there is a $20 registration fee to unlock everything), unmaintained, and does not support everything: in particular, it doesn't report variable screen widths, so the From the Cradle user interface will be stuck at eighty characters and everything will look stupid.
• ZMud by Zugg is another popular client mostly used by MUDders rather than MUSHers. It is fast but complicated and offers many features hardly any MUSHer will ever need. It is also shareware which can be registered for $34.95 and does not support Windows Vista.
• Pueblo/UE by Chaco Software and Ultra Enterprises is an older client whose main attraction was its support for HTML enhancements. This was never very popular and From the Cradle offers no support for HTML. In other ways, it's a rather mediocre client and some still like it. It does not support Windows Vista. Pueblo 2.01, an earlier version of the program, is one of the few semi-modern clients that supports Windows 3.1. It is free of charge and open-source.
• MudMagic is a free, open-source, cross-platform client that support Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Linux

• KMuddy is a graphical client for the KDE desktop environment. It's ratehr basic and lightweight compared to some of the other entries, but it is under active development and seems to improve every release. For what it's worth, it was Wilco's preferred graphical Linux client until Potato was released. It is free and open-source.
• KMud is another graphical client for KDE. It's old and no longer under active development, but you'll still see a few people using it now and then. It's exceptionally basic, but maybe that's a good thing.
• MudMagic is a free, open-source, cross-platform client that support Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.