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Following below is a Talk Back discussion on the Story entitled: Adding Convenient Layers of Persistent Abstraction to Simplify Remote Administration

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"So you've been searching for a tool that you can group and pile a bunch of your live work into, providing continuous access when you want it, and available from anywhere you need it, when you need it.

Something that can manage several remote sessions at once, and something you don't really ever have to close down. Something that works with or without a mouse. Something that works equally well in a simple console, or under X and your favorite window manager. i.e., KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, etc.

Enter twin. A seasoned and stable software offering that can greatly impact your productivity and organize the multitudes of local and remote sessions you typically manage. With twin, you don't have to continuously launch several Xterm windows, or open a bunch of tabs you can't see all at once in an Xterm window, or keep switching around from one virtual console to another - you can keep everything all nice and neat in one, single toybox, and you can access it from anywhere, at anytime...
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