Current Laptops / PCs uses 16:9 Widescreen Displays and if you dont want to use Xorg (Gnome,unity,Openbox Desktops)
you can use on Linux Console the program called “screen” it offers:
– Split Consoles horizontally and vertically
– disconnect the screen and let the scripts/commands active on remote Systems
– reconnect if the remote Session was broken cause network problems
On Gnome or unity you can use “terminator”
see:
– manpage of screen
– http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7453/how-to-split-the-terminal-into-more-than-one-view