Tmux is a very productive and versatile terminal multiplexer released in 2007. Its design stems from GNU Screen, the prototypical terminal multiplexer first released in 1987.
Why Tmux?
A typical application of Tmux is remote work. Imagine that you ssh
to your office machine and open a remote terminal to run programs. The SSH connection is suddenly broken for some reasons, e.g. poor signal, power cut, etc. As a result, all running processes are lost as the terminal session is closed.