OwnCloud Server 9.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com)

prisoninmate writes: OwnCloud Server 9.0 is without any doubt the biggest release of the world's leading file sharing and sync solution, which is used by over 8 million users around the globe. It promises to bring the collaboration and federation features to new levels thanks to the addition of new, innovative tools, as well as to improve the software's scalability. One of ownCloud 9.0's new features is code signing, which promises to offer users with a safer home for all their data by verifying the integrity of their ownCloud installations during upgrades or when installing apps, which also need to follow the new code signing specifications. The community edition of ownCloud Server 9.0 is available for download right now via Softpedia as a source package that you can deploy on your Linux kernal-based server, or straight from the project's website as binary packages for various GNU/Linux operating systems. OwnCloud Server 9.0 Enterprise Edition will be released in April 2016.

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Linux

[110010001000]

Nice! I know this: it is a Linux kernal system!

Does it scale better now?

[Anonymous Coward]

One of Owncloud's key failings in the past is that it has a horrible time dealing with a share that has tens of thousands of files in it. (Seafile, OTOH, deals with that easily.)

Has its sync improved in the last few years, or is it still limited to less then a few thousand files per share?

Re:Does it scale better now?

[110010001000]

Did you not read the summary? It is world leading. Without any doubt.

Re:Does it scale better now?

[TheRaven64]

No, performance still sucks because the designers still have absolutely no idea how to design a network filesystem. If they bothered to read the AFS papers then they'd know that all of the 'hard' problems that they're struggling with were solved decades ago (and have open source implementations). Like so many other related projects, they're far too concerned about building a platform without thinking about the underlying protocols. If I had to pick one out of open source or open protocols, I'd pick open protocols: if you start from there then you're far more likely to end up with both.

Re:Does it scale better now?

[Troed]

... or just install Seafile instead. I use an RPi for my server, which then mounts storage over NFS. The whole hosting is thus self-contained running of a single SD-card on an RPi.

And is still plenty fast.

I see no benefit with ownCloud. Also less secure than Seafile.

http://seafile.com/

Or you could post the direct links.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ironic, since the news mentions code signings and you're pointing us to Softpedia.

News: https://owncloud.org/nine/
Download: https://owncloud.org/install

Is this an ad?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Is this an ad? Because it sure reads like an ad.

Re:Is this an ad?

[110010001000]

It is probably a malware laden download from Softpedia. Otherwise they would just link to the direct download from owncloud.

Re:Is this an ad?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you follow the story link, it has a brown bar.

This "prisoninmate" seems to have a 100% submission history.

Guess it's an in-house (maybe "outhouse"?) spam submitter account.

Captcha: "disobey" OK, will do...

Re:Is this an ad?

[Banana Slamma]

I mean an ad for an open source project on /. wouldn't be too offensive, which is what is is.

Why link to softpedia?

[dbc]

Why do all the link point to the scumbags at softpedia, instead of to owncloud.org?

Don't forget about SeaFile

[Hadlock]

SeaFile is OwnCloud (which are both basically DropBox), except, Sea is a play-on for C programming language (and some Python). So it's way fast. OwnCloud is written in PHP and you get what you pay for in performance as a result.
 
 

1. https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
2. https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafile

Re:Don't forget about SeaFile

[Anonymous Coward]

Although I agree with you, Owncloud is a much more feature rich system than Seafile. Owncloud can be your caldav server for synchronizing calendar clients (e.g. thunderbird or solcalendar on android). Owncloud can be your OPDS server for accessing all of your ebooks remotely using any OPDS compatible ebook reader.

However, I have personally abandoned Owncloud. It is way too much of a pain to upgrade (running it on a Freenas system). The built in automatic updater never works. Manual updates are fraught with issues and their own documentaton, when followed to the letter does not always work. Backups are a must, and you WILL have to restore from them at times when you screw up and the entire database gets hosed (unless you want to dive in and do manual corrections to the database). Owncloud is just way too much effort to upgrade and maintain as a home user and is something I can't be bothered with anymore unless I'm being paid to maintain it.

Re:Don't forget about SeaFile

[Hadlock]

SeaFile is about 8x faster than OwnCloud when running on something like a Raspberry Pi. Using a Pi as a file server is an awful idea due to a number of issues with bus sharing but it's a fantastic example to show how much of a cow OwnCloud is from a performance standpoint.

Re:Don't forget about SeaFile

[jabuzz]

I abandoned Owncloud shortly after installing when I discovered like all free software of this type I have evaluated it had no fucking idea about operating on your normal home directory without purchasing the "enterprise" version and then some horrible kludges.

The whole think is clearly written by a bunch of web jocks who have no fucking idea about Unix development and want to reinvent the bloody wheel.

I have a user model and file system that I trust to get the permissions things right. I don't trust some crappy PHP code to do it correctly, and I don't fucking want to have all my files in Owncloud separate from my normal home directory because what's the fucking point in that and then stored under the Apache user in /var. It's a total fucking joke.

Re:Misleading press release masquerading as story

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you show me where to download the dropbox server install then? Not the client. The actual server.

Slashdot's New Owner Was Supposed to Improve It

[Bruce Perens]

Remember, hey it was just last month, how Slashdot's new owner said they'd listen to us, and get rid of the problems that had cropped up with Dice, etc.?

Well, listen guys. This doesn't have a red bar or any indication that it's paid, but it's obviously a press release, it points to people we don't trust for file downloads rather than the people who make the software that is being discussed, and it contains obvious falsehoods (like OwnCloud's acceptance next to things like DropBox).

So, this is just an isolated problem that slipped through the cracks, right?

Re:Slashdot's New Owner Was Supposed to Improve It

[turbidostato]

"It even points out that the binaries have been compiled by softpedia."

Binaries!? AFAIK OwnCloud is 100% PHP code.

Re:Misleading press release masquerading as story

[plover]

Is that a docker interface?

Re: Slashdot's New Owner Was Supposed to Improve I

[Bruce Perens]

Whoever it is must learn not to send us to Softpedia, and it's ilk, but to the developers. That's critical. The rest is learning to filter the story out of the promotion.