Announce: Rodent Delta is now yours.

[edscott wilson garcia]

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Rodent Delta (aka xffm 4.8.0) is now yours.
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Rodent Delta has extensive work done. Thread units have expanded and
support for local/remote files is now in place. Rodent Delta will run much
faster on multicore boxes (and a bit slower on single cores), but is still
faster than the official gnome filemanager on loading large directories
like "/usr/bin".

You will find binaries in both amd64 and x86 format for Debian 6, Fedora
17, OpenSuse 12.1 and Ubuntu LTS 12.04. Builds have also been tested on
ArchLinux, Gentoo and FreeBSD.

Rodent Delta now sports the new "FUSE" plugin, which allows you to mount
remote ssh filesystems (you just need a ssh account on the remote machine)
and nfs remote mounts (nfs is not exactly fuse, unless you consider that
"root" also falls under the "u").

This is a different approach than that taken by Gnome. There is no GVFS.
GVFS will do a fuse mount in ~/.gvfs, and hide this from the user. Rodent
users, on the other hand, are not stupid: hiding vital information about
how the system works is just counter productive and reminds me of MSWindows.

If you compile from source, you may choose to enable the "experimental"
plugins.
They are experimental because they have not been fully tested on all
platforms (but work fine on my Gentoo box). These experimental plugins
include:

  - obexfs: to access files on your mobile phone or device via bluetooth.
  - curlftpfs: to access file on remote ftp servers.
  - ecryptfs: to create and access encrypted directories on local disk or
removable media
  - cifs: to mount MSWindows shares. Smbfs is long deprecated and should
not be used anymore.
  - samba: this allows you to navigate MSWindows networks and select cifs
mount points. This replaces xfsamba and samba plugins from relevant xfce
3.x and 4.x releases.
  - edit button in fgr (find) dialog.

  These "experimental" items will be deemed stable in upcoming releases.
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My favorite: ecryptfs

  The approach of encrypting the whole user's directory that some
distributions use is  weak and gives a false sense of security. The Rodent
approach is to encrypt that which requires to be encrypted and only decrypt
when necessary, not every time you happen to login. This is specially
useful for removable devices. If you are working on a multimillion dollar
confidential project and your usb drive gets stolen, you might be in a sore
spot if that small directory with vital information was not properly
encrypted. This plugin replaces the scramble program distributed relevant
xfce 4.x releases and closes the security issue noted by FreeBSD users
(better late than never).

 If you feel that some feature or functionality would be nice, submit a
feature request. If you find a bug, submit a bug report (tracebacks are
essential). If you do not know what a feature request or bug report is,
then Rodent is probably not for you.

 Finally, if you wish to enable core dumps, configure with the --with-core
option.

 Remember that Rodent is provided as is, with no particular Warranty, as
stated in the GPLv3 license. My only wish is that this software may be as
helpful to you as it is to me.


 Enjoy.
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