When it comes to terminal managers in Linux, it usually boils down to three choices: screen, tmux or the dtach+dvtm duo. Proponents of each often vigorously tout their solution as the best. So let's see how they compare.

GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same session from more than one location at a time.

A handy cheat sheet for gnu screen. Who doesn't love screen?

So, what is Screen? It describes itself as: a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

The same way tabbed browsing revolutionized the web experience, GNU Screen can do the same for your experience in the command line.