Ubuntu – the difference between Terminator and Tmux

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What is the different between Tmux and Terminator? I currently use Terminator which allows me to add more shell in same screen by splitting them horizontally or vertically.

I read about them in some articles but I'm still not able to figure out the main difference.

I want to know what features I'm missing if I don't use Tmux. I'm a front-end developer. I mainly use command line to use git commands only.

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Terminator is easy to install and it does exactly what it's supposed to do - it can split terminal windows both horizontally and vertically, according to user's requirements. It also allows to keep multiple tabs opened in case splitting one window is not enough.

Tmux lies somewhere between Terminator and screen, combining ease of use with basing on the plain terminal only.

Here are the advantages of tmux over Terminator:

Portability - tmux works on all systems able to handle plain, old terminal.
Scriptability - tmux can be scripted, so that setting up windows and panes takes nothing more than one or two keystrokes.
Server-client architecture - tmux can be used to share sessions between users.
Tweaks and options - both tmux and Terminator are easy to get with, but it's tmux that allows to go further and offers wide range of configuration hacks.¹

^{¹Source: Łukasz Wróbel}

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I think you may want the other terminator actually ;)

There's http://software.jessies.org/terminator/ (gokcehan's answer) and https://launchpad.net/terminator (install link above).

Which appears to be different projects, with a very similar purpose, confusingly enough. I think the one hosted on launchpad one is the one you want for your purpose though, and it's readily available in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Curl – Difference Between libcurl3 and libcurl4

If you look closely you will see, that actually only the -dbg, -dev and -doc packages contain a version 4 in their package name, while the packages that ship the actual compiled libcurl library are still at version 3.

For a discussion on Debian about this, see this link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/04/msg00257.html

If I understand it right, there was a change in the API but not the ABI, so the binary packages were left at version 3, while the development files needed a version bump.

It also means that for example libcurl4-openssl-dev is the corresponding development package for libcurl3 despite the different version in the package name. You can see that if you take a look at libcurl3-dev (which is a virtual package and points to libcurl4-openssl-dev:

No current or candidate version found for libcurl3-dev
Package: libcurl3-dev
State: not a real package
Provided by: libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.47.0-1ubuntu2), 
    libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2)

The above snippet was taken on Ubuntu 16.04 but this will probably look similar on 14.04.

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