Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
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Re: Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
#2Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
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#3How does this compare to zellij?
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#4How does this compare to zellij?
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...
Re: Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
#5Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants".
Citation:
Re: Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
#6Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work:
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#7Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants". Citation: https://byobu.org/#about
Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.
Re: Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
#8Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants". Citation: https://byobu.org/#about
I'm also confused by why this is being posted now? I've been using byobu for almost a decade now - it and fish shell are the first things I install on a new system.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants". Citation: https://byobu.org/#about
Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.
Interesting. Yes, I do see that.
The activity graph exactly matches that of Kirkland himself: nothing until the last 3 bars, then identical. So I think we can conclude that DK is using Claude.
I detest the automatic-idiocy bots as much as anyone, but I think we do have to ask what he's doing with it.
Re: Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
#10The 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.