Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

[modinfo]

https://github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu

[lproven]

Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

[sigseg1v]

How does this compare to zellij?

[lproven → 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...

[leephillips]

Caution: partly authored by an LLM.

[lproven → leephillips]

Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants".

Citation:

https://byobu.org/#about

[leephillips → lproven]

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.