Tux Commander For Linux

Tux Commander is open-source file manager with 2 panels side by side written for GTK2. The applicationis developed using Borland Kylix 3 Open Edition (Object Pascal language). The main goal of this project is to create powerful user-friendly file manager for Linux. Some functions are (or will be) inspired by famous Total Commander. This project was started due to lack of quality mc-like file manager using any version of GTK.

This project uses Pascal bindings from the project gtk2 for pascal, designed for Free Pascal Compiler and Borland Kylix. You can now use the official package from the project website, there should not be any incompatibilities while compiling the project in Kylix. It was decided tuxcmd should be independent from any external libraries, the only thing you need is proper GTK+ 2.xx installation, any other links are made by dynamic library loading.

Unlike other open-source projects, the main distribution form of this project is the binary executable, because Kylix compiler doesn't make any optimizations for target systems, as gcc does. The other limitation of Kylix is that it is currently designed only for Linux systems and probably will never support any other Unix-based systems (for example FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin).

There's a problem with binary compatibility of VFS modules, principally they could be written in any programming language with different linkers, which could link the module against very specific library - mainly library with version number as the part of the filename.

There will be always binary packages available, but I cannot guarantee the functionality of some modules, which are not compiled in Kylix. But you can always compile them yourself, each module has a very few dependecies to the development libraries and making it is easy. And, we are looking for some people which could make binary packages for some mainstream distributions (RedHat9, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE...).

At this time, tuxcmd is actively developed only by me (tbzatek) without any sources in the Sourceforge's CVS. It is developed in my free time and I cannot guarantee flexible responses to bugfixes and new features, the development progress could be little slow then and might be interrupted for a few weeks (mostly due to my studies). It would be possible to commit the sources to CVS if somebody wants, so then everybody could be able to participate with the project (this mainly comprises development of plugins). After I finish a basic VFS interface, the developers will be able to make a contribution to the project through the plugin form (please see the Development section for more informations).