From the Canyon Edge: SCALE9x - Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

SCALE9x - Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings

I'm quite pleased that my presentation proposal has been accepted to the SCALE9x conference, to be held February 25 - 27, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA. I hope you'll join me for...

Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings

Category: Developers Track, Technology

Audience: Advanced, Intermediate, Beginner, Everyone

Abstract:

Unleash the power of your command line environment through this innovative, intuitive take on GNU Screen!

UNIX and Linux system administrators have been blessed with the GNU Screen utility for almost 25 years. Expert Screen users will swear by its importance in their toolbox. But the learning curve for new users getting started can be quite steep.

Enter 'Byobu', an innovative, intuitive approach to GNU Screen, brought to you by the Ubuntu Server community. Byobu is a set of wrapper scripts and configuration settings that unleash the power of GNU Screen for beginner and novice system administrators, while continuing to support Screen's advanced features for expert users.

Byobu includes convenient keybindings, useful status scripts, sensible configuration defaults, and a curses-based utility for modifying some of Screen's most important (but most buried) features.

In this presentation, the author of Byobu will introduce the basic flow of operation, and move into the advanced features of Byobu and GNU Screen. Any Linux user attending this presentation will be more productive when interfacing with their command line hereafter...

:-Dustin

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DavidJanuary 11, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Now I just wish I could be at SCALE. (Well, I've been wishing that.) I'd love to learn about some of the ins-and-outs of Byobu.
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Please do not use blog comments for support requests! Blog comments do not scale well to this effect.

Instead, please use Launchpad for Bugs and StackExchange for Questions.
* bugs.launchpad.net
* stackexchange.com

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:-Dustin

About the Author

Dustin Kirkland (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.

With a degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), his full-time career began as a software engineer at IBM in the Linux Technology Center working on the Linux kernel and security certifications, including a one-year stint as an dedicated engineer-in-residence at Red Hat in Boston (2005). Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys.

Dustin then first joined Canonical (2008) as an engineer (eventually, engineering manager), helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.

Dustin joined Gazzang (2011), a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored (eCryptFS), as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys. Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera (2014).

Having effectively monetized eCryptFS as an open source project at Gazzang, Dustin returned to Canonical (2013) as the VP of Product for Ubuntu and spent the next several years launching a portfolio of products and services (Ubuntu Advantage, Extended Security Maintenance, Canonical Livepatch, MAAS, OpenStack, Kubernetes) that continues to deliver considerable annual recurring revenue. With Canonical based in London, an 800+ work-from-home employee roster and customers spread across 40+ countries, Dustin traveled the world over, connecting with clients and colleagues steeped in rich cultural experiences.

Google Cloud (2018) recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem (now, Anthos) offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security. This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption.

Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing (now, Apex Fintech Solutions) as the Chief Product Officer (2019), where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships. He drastically revamped Apex's product portfolio and product management processes, retooling away from a legacy "clearing house and custodian", and into a "software-as-a-service fintech" offering instant brokerage account opening, real-time fractional stock trading, a secure closed-network crypto solution, and led the acquisition and integration of Silver's tax and cost basis solution.

Drawn back into a large cap, Dustin joined Goldman Sachs (2021) as a Managing Director and Head of Platform Product Management, within the Consumer banking division, which included Marcus, and the Apple and GM credit cards. He built a cross-functional product management community and established numerous documented product management best practices, processes, and anti-patterns.

Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim and their wonderful two daughters.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

SCALE9x - Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings

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