Foreword

Our aim is to give you a tool that does the two most important things: manage your files the way you want it, and look great doing it! To do just that, Krusader wears a great looking GUI, supports drag n' drop and mimetypes (with or without magic!) - all you need to feel right at home using it. Krusader is packed with cool features, is fast and handles archives transparently, basically, all you'd come to expect from tools like Midnight Commander. Krusader is open-source, free and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), although we (the developers) still retain the copyright for the project and its name.

The project's target is to create an all-in-one file-manager, which will do all the things you'd expect from it, and then some... ;-) Since the principle behind Krusader is based on the "old-school" managers (Midnight Commander, Norton Commander), virtual filesystems became a main focus. Virtual filesystems (VFSs) are an abstracted layer over all kinds of archived information (ZIP files, FTP servers, NFS filesystems, SAMBA shares, ISO cd/dvd images), which allows the user to access all the information transparently - just like entering a sub-directory. Krusader currently supports VFSs for archives (Zip, Tar, GZip, BZip2, Ace, Rar, Arj), packages (RPM) and filesystems (FTP, NFS, Samba). Krusader also includes a built-in Mount-Manager, which enables you to (un)mount filesystems with a single mouse click, and get usage information. A Bookmark-Manager, Remote-Connections Manager and Advanced Search module are also included. We are planning to develop more modules in the near future, thereby enhancing Krusader greatly. For information on what remains to be done look at the Todo Forum .

We hope you'll enjoy it, we do!