Midnight Commander

I love "* Commander"-style file managers/console hybrids, but mc is not the bomb. It doesn't allow you to split screen to see a few lines of console output (it's either full screen panels or nothing), keys suck and they cannot be redefined even if running under X (which should allow you to use any keys, and mc partly supports that for Ctrl+Enter but it can't be customized), the hardlink feature works poorly and does not support replicating subtrees, there are no hotkeys for sort, no 3 columns mode, etc.

Are there better Midnight Commanders for Linux? What I'm looking for is something similar to FAR Manager on Windows, which is the king of * Commanders.

krusader is a kde commander-like file manager. I hated it when I tried it but I hate mc too, so you might love it.
http://krusader.sourceforge.net/