Krusader and Konqueror

Both applications are file managers, but they differ in the way the user accomplishes different tasks. The difference is not obvious to users that have never tried a twin-panel file manager. One-panel file managers are wide spread since Windows Explorer created the default one-panel file management concept in 1995 and many Linux filemanagers adopted this concept, though in 1986 Norton Commander created an easy to use environment that is extremely powerful, so it became almost instantaneously the default file manager for DOS. Later this concept would become better know as OFM (Orthodox File Managers).

Matej Urbancic is a Gnome user who tested numerous file mangers available for Linux. After finding the best OFM available, he joined the Krew to support the Krusader project and help in spreading the usage of twin-panel file managers. This year he started a blog in which he focuses on understanding the OFM paradigm.

Read more about Krusader and Konqueror in the Complete Story.

The upcoming new, stable version Krusader-1.70.0 is planned to be ready for download about mid Februrary. It has many new features to enhance your computing experience. Some of which are the following: improved zipping, improved filters, jump-back feature, color-coded syncronizer, more tabs at startup, Brazilian/ Serbian/ Lithuanian/ Greek languages added, preserve dates on local copy/move, supports Javascript in UserActions, enhanced right-click, octal permission numbers, column types individually selectable, checksum creation/verification files, improved application search, QuickNavigation (hold Ctrl and move mouse over the URL bar), improved text search, improved RPM unpacking, new icons & splash screen artwork by contest winner Andrew Neupokoev (nwmod), as well as some 75 bug fixes, and updates of all language interfaces.