filezilla a good substitute for the buggy gftp
Gnome FTP client on Linux
As a Linux user until just recently, I've always used either the
ftp console comamnd or
lftp or
ncftp
etc.
I have also used the
gftp as a
graphic FTP client to transfer some files in the far past, and even
then my memories on how it behaves are painful :)
The gftp used to be so buggy that it crashed quite often during
simple file transfers or directory listing, I thought with the
years to pass the things has changed, but unfortunately my hopes
were for nothing.
Just recently I tried the
gftp on my Gnome desktop to
transfer some files to a remote FTP server just to realize once
again how buggy and slow this software is.
During some operations (which I cannot really recall the gftp
(gnome ftp) client crashed). Also file listings were so slow that
it usually took a couple of seconds to refresh a file directory
tree.
The only thing that I have noticed as a bit different than as I
remember the gftp is that it included much more configuration
options and a very handy feature of adding an
FTP
bookmark
That's very useful since you can easily bookmark an ftp host with
it's user and password saved, so later you can just press the host
and you're conntected again (e.g. you don't need to remember the
FTP server credentials :))
Even though the improvements in gftp I wasn't very happy of it's
buggy behaviour so after thinking about some alternatives for a
graphical FTP client I remembered there used to be a project long
time ago called
filezilla aiming at creating an
advanded FTP client to be embedded into the Mozilla browser.
A quick
apt-cache search filezilla proved the filezilla
package is available for my Debian Testing Linux.
So I've installed filezilla using a straightforward:
debian:~# apt-get install filezilla
After launching the software and testing it with my FTP all
problems were gone, FTP transfers were quicker than with gftp, no
random crashes plus a very quick load up and listing of the remote
server FTP directories.
So if you my dear reader are looking for a decent FTP graphical
client for Gnome desktop on GNU/Linux then filezilla is the one I
strongly recommend you.
Filezilla just works like charm :)