Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side-by-side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas. Here are some key features of Double Commander:

• Unicode support
  
• All operations working in background
  
• Multi-rename tool
  
• Tabbed interface
  
• Custom columns
  
• Internal text editor (F4) with syntax highlighting
  
• Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format
  
• Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, LZMA and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR.
  
• Extended search function with full text search in any files
  
• Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands
  
• Total Commander WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support
  
• File operations logging
  
• And much more…
  

Version 0.7.7:

• [Default] Start exe from command line should not inherit cashed PATH variable (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [Default] Double commander causes Dual-GPU MacBook Pro to switch to high-performance graphics (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [Graphical user interface] Search dialog doesn't find anything if it's shown for the first time (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [File operations] After cancelling rar unpacking, the .rar file remains locked (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [File operations] After cancelling extraction from paused state, the partially extracted file is locked, and thus cannot be deleted or overwritten (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [File operations] It's not possible to read some files (file names) from FTP destination . (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [Graphical user interface] После повторного выбора вида "Эскизы" переключается на "Подробный" (Alexx2000) resolved.
  
• [File operations] Moving directory does not preserve the directory timestamps (Alexx2000) resolved.