The famous File System Navigator the girl was using on the SGI IRIX machine in the Jurassic Park movie may be used in 2024. There is a new version available for Linux. The original version used proprietary GL libraries and the source was not available. But this is a new version that works out of the box on Linux.
Download the source code.
(jcartwright@2403-4800-25af-b00--2) 192.168.1.5 Documents $ git clone https://github.com/jtsiomb/fsnav.git Cloning into 'fsnav'... remote: Enumerating objects: 133, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. remote: Total 133 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 130 Receiving objects: 100% (133/133), 480.70 KiB | 3.61 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (42/42), done. |
Then navigate to the fsnav folder and run ‘make’ to compile the source.
(jcartwright@2403-4800-25af-b00--2) 192.168.1.5 fsnav $ make g++ -pedantic -Wall -g -O3 -Isrc -Isrc/vmath -Isrc/image -I/usr/local/include -fcommon -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -c -o src/colorman.o src/colorman.cc In file included from src/vmath/curves.h:40, from src/vmath/vmath.h:76, from src/colorman.h:4, from src/colorman.cc:1: |
This is very easy to use, hold the right mouse button and move the mouse to zoom in and out, use the left button and move the mouse to pan up and down. Double-click on a file to view the properties.
Hold both mouse buttons and move the mouse to rotate the display.
This is amazing indeed, to use a new version of such an old proprietary program. It works so well, but I can not work out how to change to the parent directory. It is still an amazing find though.
More information on the original SGI File System Navigator program here.