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Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles

Posted by timothy on from the marketplace-of-ideas dept.

rammerhammer writes "Sharing files amongst different platforms has most always resulted in using samba -- a program based around the windows file sharing protocol. Chungles aims to provide a nice, graphical, easy configurable file sharing alternative. It's written in Java, uses SWT for the UI, and JmDNS (Rendezvous/ZeroConf/Bonjour) for discovery of computers running Chungles."

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  1. Looks nice by Kalak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This looks like a great idea, but the one thing that it seems to lack is to actually work on files on the remote computer. You can transfer files, which is good, but working from a shared volume has a lot of benefits. Also, speed of transfer is something I'd like to see compared (I could test it, but I'm in for a busy morning and should stop slashdotting unless I lie down.)

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  2. Runs on any platform?!? by physeter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the Chungles web site: "It's a file-sharing program for local networks that runs on any platform."

    Chungles uses SWT instead of Swing. SWT being available on a fewer platforms than Swing, Chungles is even less portable than a pure Java application.

    Don't take me wrong: I love SWT but it is definitely not an option if we want to make an application available on as many platforms as possible.

  3. Re:Java???? by Reverend528 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because old ideas magically become new and better when you implement them in java.

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  4. No thanks by m50d · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A java program is still a separate program, and there's the obnoxious java license to worry about too. I find samba really nice to use, so much that I even use it for nix-to-nix transfers. And if you don't like it there's always http, open protocol with tiny servers and clients available for every OS (far more than the JRE runs on, in fact. And I think samba has been ported to more systems than JRE)

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  5. It sounds great, but ... by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... it's called chungles.

    I mean, it's useful ...but it's called chungles. It could be exactly what I'm looking for. But it's called chungles. You've maybe even read my posts, which I've written several times, about how naming shouldn't be a barrier to acceptance, that a PHB who dismisses a product by its name alone probably wasn't serious about it, that the names are whimsy but the product should be evaluated on its merits...

    But it's called chungles .

    My boss is very much not a PHB, and is very easy going and technically oriented. But I am not recommending to him or my co-workers that they install something named chungles.

    I have my limits as well.

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