Mutant Turkey Talk

PCMan File Manager

Last week, I came across this really nifty file manager called PCMan File Manager. The goal of the project was to create a slim, lightweight manager that is easy to use.

Unlike a file manager like Nautilus [GNOME] or Konqueror [KDE] that sucks up resources and has so many bells and whistles it’s not practical on an older computer, PCMan is extremely fast.

” Let file manager be file manager, not a combination of web browser, media player, archiver, CD-burner, and anything you can think of .” is  one of the fundamental ideas of this project, and that’s all it is, a basic simple little file manager that lets me do what I need to do and be done with it.

Since most of my spare time is wasted messing around with old Pentium II’s,  I spend a lot of it trying to make them faster and more functional, I end up finding programs like this that are lightweight.  My first impression of the program was that it looked a lot like Thunar, and had many of similar features, but it incorporates tabbed browsing and other handy features that lets me operate the program more effectively than having six windows open.

It starts up fast, loads files fast, mounts, unmounts, searchs, lets you drag and drop, has thumbnails for images, uses bookmarks and has a clean simple interface, all the things in short, for what a file manager needs.

You can download it in Synaptic or get it at the download page

Have fun slim browsing. =]