Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

karmakaze 11 minutes ago |

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.

lproven 1 hour ago |

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

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

sigseg1v 1 hour ago |

How does this compare to zellij?

lproven 1 hour ago | |

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 2 hours ago |

Caution: partly authored by an LLM.

lproven 1 hour ago | |

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

Citation:

https://byobu.org/#about

epihelix 1 hour ago | | |

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.

leephillips 1 hour ago | | |

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.

timmmmmmay 5 minutes ago | | |

oh no he's using computers to write software

lproven 59 minutes ago | | |

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.