Double Commander

Started with a twin-panel file manager called "du" on a Kaypro 2 with C/PM in 1982.
Found Norton Commander about 1984 on a 286 PC along with TurboPascal_1.0/3.0 about 1984.
A real speed demon. And TP3 was even better --complete development environment on
a floppy disk with room for lot of source.

Then came upon Window's Commander which morphed into Total Commander.
Began using Win(Tot)Cmd in about 1992. Also CMFiler, a DOS twin-panel file manager,
for those moments when Win95 was incapacitated.

By 1997 when I began learning about Linux, I started looking for a replacement for TC.
In email conversations with Christian Ghisler, he said he was not interested
in building a Linux version of TC. Someone suggested Krusader for Kde and that helped me
make the change to dual-booting Linux in 2000. Still learning.

In Jan 2001, switched completely to Linux. Had to learn how to do all the things that
were so simple in Win98 and DOS --FTP, file recovery, file management, etc.

I really like Krusader. Even helped document Krusader. It is patterned after Total
Commander and was one of the first things I installed on a new Linux install of anything.
Began my experience on Linux with Mandrake7.2-(Kde), Kanotix, sidux(Kde->Xfce),
Debian testing, LinuxMint, PepperMint, & SalineOS(Xfce4) which is what I use today
on several machines.

Having left Kde around 4.0, I mainly used Xfce4; but still, installed Krusader
with all it's Kde libraries at each new install. But a while back I read about SpaceFM,
which sounded nice and was not Kde4 bound. Alas, it would not install in SalineOS
(Debian stable), but I saw a note about Double Commander and took a look.

There was not really a Debian version, but I tried and installed the Lucid version into my
SalineOS (Debian Stable) and to my surprise, it was even better than I had hoped. Not only
was it like running Total Commander again, which I still use on my boss's WinXP laptop,
I could get rid of all the overweight KDE libs.

Only been using it a couple of days, but I love the fact that it is written in FreePascal.
Debian stable only offers fpc-2.4.0-2. Will have to look into that.

Thanks, for your efforts. They are appreciated.
Regards,
Richard.

Yes, you won't be able to use FPC or Lazarus from Debian stable. You need at least FPC 2.4.2 and Lazarus 0.9.30 to build DC. Debian testing has 2.6.0 already, I think, and Lazarus 0.9.30 too.