Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
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14 points
13 comments
June 18, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
leephillips
Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
sigseg1v
How does this compare to zellij?
lproven
Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
karmakaze
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.