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Linux GUI FTP software that doesn't rocket my CPU usage??
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:24 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Just done a phpBB forum upgrade for somebody and had to use FTP which sucks cos it's not easy to do thing like upload tarballs and extract them, on the server with the correct permissions. Anyway, besides the point but since I use linux I've been using FireFTP for stuff like this. I can't stand using FTP on the command line - it's just too much to think about Ascii/Binary blah blah when I can just use a GUI based alternative. FireFTP has some sort of annoying bug though. When it's been open for more than about 30 seconds my CPU hits 100% and everything grinds to a halt... it even refuses to upload files itself.
What's anyone else using on linux?
Cheers,
d11
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:11 pm
by Christopher
I use gFTP and have been happy so far. I wish they would add some more file manager features to the local window, but it does the job.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:10 pm
by neophyte
I use Konqueror or Nautilus. In your address bar just use ftp:// or even sftp://. In my experience Konqueror is far better than Nautilus at this sort of thing.

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:00 pm
by Chris Corbyn
neophyte wrote:I use Konqueror or Nautilus. In your address bar just use ftp:// or even sftp://. In my experience Konqueror is far better than Nautilus at this sort of thing.

<side note> Grr... I keep clicking edit instead of qoute!</side note>
I didn't realise nautilus did that

I used to be a K_ man but these days I'm into Gnome since there a little less clutter.
I'll check out gFTP and try using nautilus to do it too

Cheers.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:44 pm
by neophyte
I've only been a Nautlius/GNOME user for about 2 months. I'm running FC 5.
Before that it was always K.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:16 am
by Chris Corbyn
nautilus works a peach cheers

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:11 pm
by Deemo
i use KBear on my linux machine, and i like it

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:39 am
by neophyte
I'll have to give KBear a try. I've never heard of that one. Thanks for the info.
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:59 am
by infolock
I'm running suse and had nothing but problems out of KBear... Just use Konqueror. It has it's own built-in ftp gui, and you can even use SFTP as well.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:53 am
by erasokamotesk
totally agreed with you
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:39 am
by themurph
Firefox has an FTP gui extension that works pretty decent:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:47 am
by Chris Corbyn
I totally love the way you clearly read my first post

FireFTP has got some big problems

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:38 pm
by defect
if you use KDE you could try kftpgrabber. i used it a while ago and it seemed pretty decent.
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:21 pm
by morningboat
If you have Java installed, you will find the CrossFTP (
http://crossftp.googlepages.com/download.htm) works good, and the installation is easy by web start.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:35 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Hey thanks. I'll give that a go since it looks good. Much as I displike things that require a JVM since my little celeron cries at me for raping it this way.