The original version of Servant Salamander was developed by Petr Šolín during his studies at the Czech Technical University. He released it as freeware in 1997. After graduation, Petr Šolín founded the company Altap in cooperation with Jan Ryšavý.
FreeCommander Alternatives
FreeCommander is described as 'Dual-panel manager with tabbed interface, built-in viewer, ZIP/RAR/7z archive support, folder sync, batch rename, search and customizable shortcuts' and is a very popular File Manager in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to FreeCommander for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and iPad apps. The best FreeCommander alternative is Double Commander, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FreeCommander are Total Commander, Files, Spacedrive and Dolphin File Manager.
Alternatives list
34 Open Salamander alternatives
65 Dora alternativesFinding files and organizing your computer just go a lot easier. Dora is the smart file explorer designed to save you time and frustration.
Saladin is an open source dual-pane file manager for Windows which merges the capabilities of Windows Explorer with the well known and easy to use orthodox user interface.
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W- 16 Norton Commander alternatives
Norton Commander is a MS-DOS based file shell that was widely popular due to it's two column design. You could easily copy and move files between one folder or another, execute DOS commands and more.
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Xenon File Manager Portable is a file manager specifically designed to work from a USB drive.
Frigate3 is a handy file manager with built-in file viewers, handy utilities, and a wealth of other options that make managing and browsing through files easy.
KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
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89 Xarchiver alternativesXarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was developed with a simple GUI which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls.
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Xarchiver vs FreeCommander Comments
- Xarchiver is Free and Open Source
- Xarchiver is a File Archiving
- Xarchiver is Lightweight
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It is a File Archiver (file compression) not a File Manager.