The broot file manager guarantees clearer, quicker navigation of the directory tree at the command line.

Following in the footsteps of Norton Commander and its clones, the Sunflower twin-panel file manager takes a giant leap forward with a switch to Python 3 and GTK3.

Unnecessary files and directories take up valuable space on hard disks or SSDs. Baobab lets you locate and remove data garbage at the push of a button.

At long last, Debian joins other Unix-like distributions in merging /usr directories.

Stop fiddling around with the mouse or trackpad – do your file management in the terminal, with vi-like key bindings.

Paperwork was developed to manage the paperless office – a dream as old as desktop PCs.

Sunflower is a highly configurable graphical file manager with two windows that implement an unusual concept by trying to integrate the command line with the file manager.

The extended filesystem has been part of the Linux kernel since 0.96c – a faithful companion of the free operating system. With its developments – or, rather, rebirths – through ext2, ext3, and ext4, it is one of the oldest Linux-specific software projects.

Just because you have two solutions for using exFAT doesn't necessarily mean you should use either one of them. We examine some of the issues – legal and technical – surrounding this Microsoft filesystem.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.