“Nautilus is shaping up to be a great file manager, and just
what GNOME needs to shake the usability problems GMC poses for the
current GNOME desktop. It looks clean, provides enough options to
make it a comfortable and customizable fit for most users, and
promises to provide much the same ‘all-in-one’ functionality KDE2’s
Konqueror provides.”
“It’s still, however, slow, and there are bugs that make it die
from time to time. It’s a good idea to remember that it ships with
a script called nautilus-clean.sh, which kills stray processes it
may leave behind after a crash, or just a poor shutdown. Running it
for too long will take a toll on system performance at this point,
but it isn’t anything untoward for software under heavy
development. It’s even somewhat usable if you don’t mind a few bugs
here and there.”
“The real meat of this release wasn’t Nautilus, as much as it
has improved. It was the look Red Hat users in particular got at
the services Eazel plans to offer, which have always been the
reason behind the company’s efforts on the Linux platform. It will
be interesting to see what else comes along as they flesh out their
services model.”