Opera & Midnight Commander

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:21:57PM +0300, Harijs Buss wrote: 
> I was also unpleasantly surprised not to find mc in Ubuntu/Kubuntu 
> distributions. What was the reason to exclude this small but very useful 
> program (size only about 0.6 Mb) from Ubuntu distro? Being direct analog to 
> very popular FAR program in Windows world, mc makes life much easier for 
> Windows converts. It is essential for mc to be already in distribution 
> because it is often needed before any GUI and networking has been 
> established. 
> 
> Some other distros, e.g. Mandriva has mc right in the installation disks. 

I agree that mc should be included by default. I don't use it all the
time, but it is a very useful tool and can be quite beneficial to help
users new to linux to get comfortable with the command line.

Mike