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CLUSTER EMULATOR-TERMINAL-WITHOUT · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-08-25

Framebuffer terminal emulators

The cluster comprises minimal terminal emulators that render directly to the Linux framebuffer without a display server or windowing system. Its dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only three entries predate the index start. Traction leaders are zt, fbterm, and yaft, all showing very low activity (0 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2015: 1MAY 2021: 1MAY 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2015OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Otterm1★10 dayslivehobbyTerminal emulator that is beginner-friendly, supports mods, and runs on desktop with no telemetry.
  2. 02yaft0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLightweight terminal emulator that renders directly to the framebuffer without a windowing system.
  3. 03zt0★5 moliveopen sourceA minimal terminal emulator application that runs on a specific windowing system without requiring graphics acceleration.
  4. 04fbterm0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that runs directly on the Linux framebuffer without a display server.

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