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Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer (github.com/dustinkirkland)
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Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work:

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


How 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...


Caution: 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.



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