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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