I wonder why noone has ever though about forking iFolder, remove its ".Net"/Mono dependencies and integrate it into Gnome. If you add some P2P and Crypto working capabilities to share big files with friends it would be great. The idea is simple, the original code is tested and opensourced, however it has never gained enough traction to work. I wonder why.
Personally, I had the chance to test it some years ago and it totally felt like a "private dropbox", however the server side it is totally linked to Novell products and installing it in Ubuntu/Debian/RedHat/CentOS is more than painful (if not almost impossible).
OTOH, when what you want is a dropbox replacement, you want it to work seamlessly and automatically... rsync/unison are not alternatives to this unless coupled to a daemon that manages them. It's how I do it now and, although it works, it's not the same thing.
It's interesting the way that the press is treating the way that Linux is growing.
But, from what I see, the most important thing is that institutions from all the countries that have thier important data in computers, and are connected to a network, whether it is local or not, should take really good care of the OS which they are working with.
Those institutions, shouln't use propietary software, which is something that they can't control. As an example, should Iran or Libia, or even Israel use NT for their military pourposes, knowing that the US goverment wont let Microsoft use anything they could't crack. What about banks all over the world, if needed, the US goverment or even a Microsoft engineer could get to know confidential data at any moment.
Would you give a copy of key that keep all your data to Mr. Gates?
Even more, what about propietary formants?. Should an institution make you own propietary software to access to some public domain data. As an (real) example, let's imagine that the bases for some institutional job are only accesible through the internet, and they're in the famous, but not free, '.doc' format, should I own the Microsoft Word 97 to be able to get the job?. Why is that job avaliable only for people that have bought it?. Why not LaTeX?
Security!!!. It's funny how many people are willing and ready to take a WORD document from someone else who they do not know and open it without checking it B4, without even thinking that it can contain a macro virus. All their work could dissapear in few minutes, and it's possible that all the documents of the company could vanish in few hours. The whole office suite is a whole danger for your data.
What Do I want to say?
All that institutions in every 'computerized' country, SHOULD use open source software and open formats. For their own security they should never trust software from which the do not have the source code.
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I wonder why noone has ever though about forking iFolder, remove its ".Net"/Mono dependencies and integrate it into Gnome. If you add some P2P and Crypto working capabilities to share big files with friends it would be great. The idea is simple, the original code is tested and opensourced, however it has never gained enough traction to work. I wonder why.
Personally, I had the chance to test it some years ago and it totally felt like a "private dropbox", however the server side it is totally linked to Novell products and installing it in Ubuntu/Debian/RedHat/CentOS is more than painful (if not almost impossible).
OTOH, when what you want is a dropbox replacement, you want it to work seamlessly and automatically ... rsync/unison are not alternatives to this unless coupled to a daemon that manages them. It's how I do it now and, although it works, it's not the same thing.
My 2 cents.
Hey man!, this one is really good.
I like it!
Well!
Already Donwloaded the Images (Relly well from UK to Spain), burned the CD's, and installed at home with something like
A whole O.S. plus tons of applications, from the Net to my home PC (which is not connected to the net)in few hours
I'll share those 'still warm' Cd's with all my mates at work so they can also feel the power of linux.
Thanks to all the Debian developers/contributors for that Really Good Work.
M*
It's interesting the way that the press is treating the way that Linux is growing.
But, from what I see, the most important thing is that institutions from all the countries that have thier important data in computers, and are connected to a network, whether it is local or not, should take really good care of the OS which they are working with.
Those institutions, shouln't use propietary software, which is something that they can't control. As an example, should Iran or Libia, or even Israel use NT for their military pourposes, knowing that the US goverment wont let Microsoft use anything they could't crack. What about banks all over the world, if needed, the US goverment or even a Microsoft engineer could get to know confidential data at any moment.
Would you give a copy of key that keep all your data to Mr. Gates?
Even more, what about propietary formants?.
Should an institution make you own propietary software to access to some public domain data.
As an (real) example, let's imagine that the bases for some institutional job are only accesible through the internet, and they're in the famous, but not free, '.doc' format, should I own the Microsoft Word 97 to be able to get the job?. Why is that job avaliable only for people that have bought it?. Why not LaTeX?
Security!!!. It's funny how many people are willing and ready to take a WORD document from someone else who they do not know and open it without checking it B4, without even thinking that it can contain a macro virus. All their work could dissapear in few minutes, and it's possible that all the documents of the company could vanish in few hours. The whole office suite is a whole danger for your data.
What Do I want to say?
All that institutions in every 'computerized' country, SHOULD use open source software and open formats. For their own security they should never trust software from which the do not have the source code.
That's where GNOME and Linux can do their job.