Any suggestions over a good working File browser

[Peter A. Banks]

Alan:

Thanks for the reply!

This is a 3 year old system on my home system with a 800 MHz AMD athlon
chip 512Mb memory and two 40gb hard drives. All partitions are ext3. I
have no NFS just Samba running slowness happens when I try to look at
any large directory like /usr/share or /usr/lib. I am running Nautilus
set up for tree view as default. Even with out the tree view Nautilus
take a minute to build the directory on /usr/lib. I will try Rox.

Regards
pab  

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:18:28 -0400
From: Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Any suggestions over a good working File browser.
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On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:47:34PM -0400, Peter A. Banks wrote:
> Since Konqueror which comes with Fedora 2 KDE is both real slow and
> hangs a lot, and Nautilus is slow and is hard to work with since they
> made the tree view is not the default. Yeah I know I restore the tree

I'm surprised you find nautilus slow - the new mode especially is fast
on my boxes. What sort of system are you running and do you have a lot
of say NFS files ?

> Any good suggestions for a replacement file browser that I can
download
> and compile? I do like being able to open a terminal session in active
> window like you can in Konqueror.

Fedora Core 2 shipped with three desktops. Gnome, KDE and XFCe. The
XFCe desktop uses a lot less memory than KDE or Gnome although less
featureful.

For raw speed I've not seen anything to outperform RoX as a reasonably
featured file manager. Rox and XFCe work together very nicely.