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10 Best Orthodox Free Linux File Managers

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A file manager is software that provides a user interface to undertake file management activities with file systems. The file manager is one of those essential applications for many users which is almost impossible to function without. Linux is blessed with a good range of file managers that help to make file management a breeze.

There are a number of different types of file managers, with some stark differences. The most common file managers that we see are navigational file managers, orthodox file managers, and web-based file managers. The less popular types include file-list, spatial, and 3D file managers. The purpose of this article is to examine the finest open source orthodox file managers that are available for the Linux platform.

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Comments (14)

notbob ·
It's a gol'durn travesty, is what it is, not including dired, the file manager in emacs. I've yet to find something I can't do from emacs' dired mode and when I do, it's usually cuz I haven't learned how, yet. Best file manager since XTree.

nb
Bob_Robertson ·
Very true. Emacs does everything.

Even the word "Orthodox" would work, since the GUI is obviously "Reformed".
Bob_Robertson ·
No Konqueror, either.
jacog ·
Bob - I don't think konqueror's split-pane mode counts as an orthodox file manager.
BernardSwiss ·
I thought split-panel file managers such as Norton Commander/Midnight Commander are the "orthodox" file managers.-- I am shocked, truely shocked that a Linux-oriented rag ;-) would imply otherwise!

Please to cancel my subscription, forthwith.



(edit: though hardly conclusive, I see that Wikipedia supports my (ahem) orthodox position...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager )
Bob_Robertson ·
Jacog,

There's a split-screen mode?

(BTW, humor. Haha.)
vainrveenr ·
Quoting:I've yet to find something I can't do from emacs' dired mode and when I do, it's usually cuz I haven't learned how, yet. Best file manager since XTree.


The FSF's 'GNU Emacs' site is http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/, the GNU Emacs Manual's 'Dired' section is found at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html, and the EmacsWiki describing the 'Dired Plus' extension to Dired is found at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus

Note from the first link that that the current stable release of Emacs is 24.1



Steven_Rosenber ·
There's so much competition from the non-free file managers in Linux, we really need to give the free ones some love ...
caitlyn ·
Some people might not see your invisible dripping sarcasm tags, Steven_Rosenberg :)
cr ·
Ytree here. I use it constantly.
BernardSwiss ·
I keep telling myself that some day I'm going to "learn emacs" (ok, dabble a bit, learn some basics) nut I never get around to it.

But as it is, I sometimes need to "brush-up" my basic Vim skills (if only because it's worth it just to be able to easily insert a column of text).

Well, maybe when the weather turns cold and wet again...

BernardSwiss ·
@ escherdragon that's a cool nick!

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