[GTALUG] Screen vs Tmux

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 3:42 PM Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> tmux - more modern, less crufty.
>

Screen still supports RS-232 input, so there are some extra use cases it
covers, that matter not to 99% of us.

Screen is GNU licensed, tmux is BSD licensed, again, mattering to probably
1% of us.

The package for tmux is about 1/2 the size of that for Screen (Debian Sid,
amd64), while installed, it's 2/3 the size.  Possibly smaller in memory
footprint; that's a difference of more practical value.

On modern systems, that difference may not much matter either.

I used to use Screen, shifted to tmux perhaps 8 or so years ago, and
haven't had any complaints.

I think it's a bit easier to write scripts to manipulate tmux environments
(which is not unlike what Giles noted about the scripting language of
Screen).

There's also a likelihood that there are more people still working on tmux.

None of these factors point at dominant arguments, just at small possible
advantages.

>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20190621/8b242ce0/attachment.html>