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- Caution: partly authored by an LLM.by leephillips
- I was just thinking about installing it the other day as well.by nosrepa
- Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants".
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by lproven - Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work:by lproven
- How so?
- How does this compare to zellij?by sigseg1v
- On its own, it doesn't. On top of tmux, somewhat.
I tried to compare terminal multiplexers a couple of years ago:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/24/tiling-termi...
by lproven - The first and mostly only time I use byobu was for production operations on a mysql database cluster. I thought it was some customized script or version of screen meaning Bring-Your-Own-BackUp. I later realized that's what those folding screens are called.by karmakaze