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Ifolder Server Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the know-when-to-ifold-em dept.

liquidat writes "I wanted to have a look at the new Open Source ifolder-server and additionally at ifolder in general. ifolder is mainly supported by Novell, and Novell advertises it's Suse Linux, so I downloaded a Suse-VMware image, installed the vmware player and gave it a try. After I installed the needed software it worked pretty well and gave me a quite good impression of what ifolder is about."

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  1. What is ifolder? by Pedrito · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would be nice if you gave a quick description of what exactly iFolder is. From reading the article posting, the first few paragraphs of your blog, and the link in the first paragraph of your blog, I know it's written in GTK# and that it's from Novell, but I still have no idea what the hell it is and now I don't care anymore.

    To the editors, please reject stories that don't describe what new products (or not commonly known products) are so that people can have some clue right away whether or not they want to bother reading the story.

    I don't know if I want to read this because I don't know what ifolder is and I obviously can't figure it out without reading a lot more of the article than I want.

    1. Re:What is ifolder? by Bazman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Some fine stating-of-the-obvious in that article:

      "If you are going to share quite a big amount of data over this server, the server itself should have enough storage since it keeps a copy of every file"

        Where else did you think it was going to keep a copy?

        I think its basically an MS Sharepoint-type document sharing solution, of which you will find umpteen other examples on freshmeat.net.

      http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=document+management &section=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

      Several of them even claim to be 'Enterprise-class' or 'professional'. Now an article comparing all of these with 'iserver' and sharepoint would be worth frontpaging on slashdot..

      Barry

    2. Re:What is ifolder? by richlv · · Score: 2, Insightful

      it does ?
      automatic file synchronisation (both ways) isn't built into ftp servers/clients, i think ;)

      --
      Rich
  2. I read the whole article by pavon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and I still don't really know what ifolder is. From what I read, it is a folder that I can access using a special client or a web interface. There is tons of software that does something along this line, from basic FTP / Apache folder view, to NFS or Coda to all the various HTTP webdrop applications.

    A more usefull article would explain how it compares to other common software, not necisarily to declare a w1nnAr but to let me know what what situations it excels in, and if it would be usefull to me.

  3. Re:slimmer alternatives ? by justasecond · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dunno if it's abandoned, but it doesn't matter. Unison is *mature* -- there just aren't any lurking bugs that will never be fixed, or "coming soon" features that you really need *now*.

    So don't worry about not having new versions available, or that new patches aren't forthcoming. I've been using my copy for over three years now with *one* update (and that was just because I installed a newly-downloaded version on a new machine and the new version was incompatible with the older copy).