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What a worthless article

What a worthless article

Posted Dec 19, 2006 19:27 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205)
Parent article: A survey of Linux file managers (Linux.com)

A total fluff piece. Among other flaws, it doesn't even mention Unixtree.


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What a worthless article

Posted Dec 19, 2006 22:04 UTC (Tue) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]

A modern-day version of XTreeGold? Wow, that sure takes me back. It was 15 years ago, I was but a little kid, the FAT filesystem on my 386SX's tiny hard drive got corrupted for the umpteenth time, and I was trying to use XTreeGold to rescue some of my files... Ah, the memories.

But why in the name of all that is holy would someone want to use XTreeGold, or a Unix clone of it, in 2006?

What a worthless article

Posted Dec 19, 2006 23:56 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

It's simply the best tool for the job.

It will do everything you'd ever want to do in a filemanager, it provides a clear display that allows you to parse the information you need very quickly and easily, and can be run completely from the keyboard, which means you can perform operations much more quickly than with a GUI and mouse contraption.

So far as GUIs go, Krusader is quite usable, but it still feels slow and cludgey next to unixtree.

What a worthless article

Posted Dec 20, 2006 16:33 UTC (Wed) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]

It's simply the best tool for the job.

I like the nice thumbnails! ;-)

What a worthless article

Posted Dec 20, 2006 16:43 UTC (Wed) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]

That is forgiveable, but not mentioning ROX Filer is really bad (see the first comments on the article).

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