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As a long time ‘screen’ user, one thing I appreciated was that you could count on it to be installed on almost any machine you ssh into. Is ‘tmux’ one of those
by parpfish 2y ago
As a long time ‘screen’ user, one thing I appreciated was that you could count on it to be installed on almost any machine you ssh into. Is ‘tmux’ one of those things where it’s safe to assume it’ll always be there?
- t-3 2y agoTmux is rarely ever there by default (only on OpenBSD that I know of), but it's always available. On the other hand, screen isn't available by default on many Linux distros either.
- throwaway984393 2y agoNo matter how old the machine/distro, screen is packaged. Tmux is only packaged for recent distro versions.
- ggm 2y agooptimal% which screen screen not found optimal% uname -a FreeBSD optimal.algebras.org 14.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64 optimal% magicpudding% uname -a FreeBSD magicpudding.local 13.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p4 n257491-41f6a830f8e TRUENAS amd64 magicpudding% which screen magicpudding%
- fragmede 2y agopackaged, not installed
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoAre you running a lot of systems on over-decade-old OSs? Because tmux isn't really new anymore
- dec0dedab0de 2y agoI like screen, but I think newer versions of rhel don’t have it
- ggm 2y agoNo. A major downside. But cross distro/os screen wasn't reliably available either. Which also socks.
- jmclnx 2y agoWhen dealing with UNIXs like AIX, screen is the only choice. Plus I noticed it is a bit lighter than tmux. But there was one odd instance where I had a minor issue with screen, I forgot what it was. FWIW, tmux comes with NetBSD too, I suspect maybe it is there by default on FreeBSD too.