Midnight Commander in Action
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 19:04.
There are a lot of free file managers. There is Nautilus in GNOME environment (with GTK libraries), KDE users have Konqueror and Krusader. There is also more and more useful Dolphin, which is destined to be default file manager to KDE 4. Fast Thunar can be found in less “heavy” graphical environment — XFCE 4. All those applications offer great functionality. However, they share a common feature which in unfavorable conditions would be considered as a defect — they enjoy as a rule very intertwined interdependences, they demand a lot of libraries connected with their graphical environment, and (which is obvious) they need X Window System server running. Of course, console zealots and users looking for “light” solutions are not left alone. They have MC!
Midnight Commander (mc for short) is the most popular console (command line) file manager. Its design was inspired by classic two-panel interface found in the famous Norton Commander, a DOS file manager. Midnight Commander is equipped in many functions:
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Austrumi greek versions had Midnight commander ?
Since Midnight Commander(2 mb) can read data compressed files, it is the file manager of choice for any livecd with squashfs(tar and gzip).
Austrumi v1.1.0 had Midnight Commander in the Greek version which also can be switched to english version. If you are familiar with Windows DOS commands(batch processing), you will love Midnight Commander commandline inputs to work with files.
But livecd often only works in drams of file systems and ramdisks. You have to know your computer architecture and names of ramdisks and file systems?
I love Midnight Commander in Linux livecd!