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Episode: 138
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Title: HPR0138: Bee Soft Commander
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0138/hpr0138.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 12:16:31
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Hey, it's Steve Geek and welcome to another episode of Hack-A-Public Radio.
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Today, another now ongoing series of lightweight applications.
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The lightweight application series is open to all contributors to Hack-A-Public Radio
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and is operating system agnostic.
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Today, I want to review for you BeSoft Commander, also known as PackageName BSC,
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if you want to do an apt-get install BSC is the way to get it.
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BeSoft Commander is a QT-based file manager based on the old Midnight Commander file manager.
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So, well, there's a mouthful. What do those things mean? Well, QT-based.
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You know, there's the GNOME desktop and then there's the KDE desktop and there's, you know,
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a bunch of lightweight window managers.
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That means that all the graphics in this set are really made to go with the KDE,
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but I don't run KDE anymore, but it happens to just like this particular file manager.
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So, what I mean by it's a Midnight Commander style. Well, it's one of these things where
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you kick it off and you get your graphical window, which is the application,
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and there's two columns of files.
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And you can change the directories for either half of the screen and then you highlight files
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and you can move them back or forth or delete them or, you know, all the different functions it has.
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But BeSoft Commander is more than just a graphical version of a kind of old style, you know,
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80 by 24 column text mode file manager.
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It doesn't just purify it. It does a few things more that I really like.
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One of the things I really like is that the package has a drop-down menu called Languages.
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And this program is ready to go and whatever language you happen to be familiar with.
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It does Czechoslovakian, German, English, Polish, Russian and Spanish.
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So, with the click of a mouse, all the commands and all the boxes and all the things that are displayed
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changes to the language that you know best.
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So, the other thing I like about Midnight Commander is that it has a built-in FTP client.
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So, you can kick off a manage FTP connection, FTP connect, click new,
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type it, get a bookmark going for FTP site you use frequently.
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And then you can just choose that one and one of the panels becomes the remote file system you need to access.
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Fantastic. So, not only is it a file manager on your local system, it's also your FTP client.
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It does all that without bringing in a whole bunch of dependencies that log down your system
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with all kinds of word statements you never asked for.
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There is also a third feature that I really, really like.
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Now, all file managers have a delete option.
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But, in Vsoft Commander, when you delete and you're on your local system,
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there's a checkbox called Wipe Files.
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And it will overwrite the file before deleting it for greater security.
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And as hackers, we should all appreciate that.
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So, that's my mini review of a software package, lightweight software package called Vsoft Commander,
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also known as Package Name BSC.
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Thanks for listening to today's Hacker Public Radio.
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Hacker Public Radio is Community Radio, so please consider recording your own episodes and contributing them.
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We'd love to have more up there.
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Thank you and have a great day.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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HPR is sponsored by Carol.net, so head on over to C-A-R-O dot Anything for all of us here.
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Thank you very much.
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