Nemo (file manager)


Nemo is a free and open-source software and official file manager of the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is a fork of GNOME Files.

History

Nemo version 1.0.0 was released in July 2012 along with version 1.6 of the Cinnamon, reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012. It started as a fork of the GNOME file manager Nautilus v3.4 after the developers of the operating system Linux Mint considered that "Nautilus 3.6 is a catastrophe".
Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after Jules Verne's famous character Captain Nemo, who is the captain of the Nautilus.

Features

Nemo v1.0.0 had the following features as described by the developers: