Well, it depends on what you want I suppose. ownCloud does a lot of things with external storage, where we obviously have to store information about the files to offer search, sharing and all the other functionality. ownCloud 9.0 actually introduces the ability for ownCloud to use such features in the filesystem if they're there - or at least, a API to make the storage plugins do that. This is needed as we want to scale through the Petabyte storage barrier - see https://opensource.com/busines...
Sorry, ownCloud currently does no transcoding and things like that. While such functions could be added, it isn't there today. It can play videos - by providing them to your browser. Works for most formats, but not perfect. The music player is cool but doesn't scale, at least not to my collection (100 GB mp3's).
This is mostly meant as a 'file sync and share', that's the base of ownCloud: make your files available wherever you are, and wherever those files are (you can mount ftp, samba, webdav, dropbox and other things in ownCloud and get at your files in one place).
Hmm, I wrote the page, but didn't expect somebody to take the "a safe home for all your data" to mean you can sync your entire home. ownCloud is a replacement for the big proprietary end user 'clouds' like Google, Dropbox etc - give it one or multiple folders and the sync client syncs them between devices; you can share files, comment on them in the web UI, edit them online or locally and so on.
Sharing an entire home folder on Linux, no, that won't work. Lots of 'special' files and folders that won't be synced (eg symbolic or hard links, dotfiles and all that) because that would not work cross-platform, for one. And if you'd use two systems at once, you get loads of conflict files. Oh, and yes, permissions and user settings... probably wouldn't work either. The POSIX stuff is great but doesn't work on Windows or Mac so we just can't support that - lowest common denominator, sad but that's how it is - most of our 8 million users are on Windows.
Sorry that it didn't work out - and isn't designed that way. Hope you find another solution which can help you better.
It's been improved but the company and community behind it are nearly dead (it wasn't primarily developed by ownCloud). So things were quiet until - Liberoffice Online came along and now Collabora is working on integrating that in ownCloud;-)
We're working with CERN, AARNet and others to bring ownCloud to a higher level of scalability. right now, petabyte level filesystems are no problem but going beyond that is hard. ownCloud 9.0 introduces changes to break through that barrier. See https://opensource.com/busines... for more info.
Of course, if you're merely talking about a few hundred terrabyte of data, ownCloud won't have any issues with it if it's set up properly. I suggest you check out the deployment recommendations:
https://doc.owncloud.org/serve...
There is ONE performance issue left: very many (thousands) of very small (under 100 KB) files syncing with the client. With very large files and fat network pipes, you probably also should increase the chunck size in the client to improve network performance.
Well, considering how ownCloud probably does more than seafile to secure seafile... https://seacloud.cc/group/3/wi... yeah, that's reported by our security guy. The other reports got silently fixed - there's not much of a proper, transparent security process there.
But if you believe it's more secure than ownCloud, good luck with earning money on ownCloud's lack of security: https://owncloud.org/security - check the hackerone program.
Surprise - you can do that too with the desktop client and mobile clients. The key is: access files however you want from wherever you want and share how you want with whomever you want. If you spend most of your time on one device, it is still useful for those few times you don't, or to share...
Sure.
But there is also this thing called real life, where you need patents to at least defend yourself against others - see what now happens in the mobile world with anyone who uses Android and doesn't have a strong set of patents - google can't protect you with the meager 50 patents they have so you get sued.
the GLPv3 should be clarified or its use should not be forced - why not fork those projects using it, if companies can't ship it?
I know little about licenses nor do I care much nor do I WANT to know more. It is just annoying to read that a company who was contributing to FOSS out of PRAGMATIC reasons is now quitting - that sucks. We need MORE of those Apples, not less.
Big Meh. And if the GPLv3 is too blame, well, I just might start to think it is not a good license...
Considering that we are working on a Foundation and Attachmate has been very positive about openSUSE (even had some attachmaties join our marketing channel during the launch) I'd say we're going nowhere else but forward;-)
I use the nvidia driver, the latest one still supports my geforce6600 - and there are a couple of older generations still being supported too.
Granted, they don't benefit from feature development anymore - for that and more principal reasons I would prefer free drivers. However, it's not as bad and gloomy as you describe...
Well, KDE sure copies things - there are good ideas out there and we use them. But innovation is high on our agenda, if you follow dot.kde.org and planet.kde.org you'd know that. We want to lead, not recreate win'98 with a bit more usability sauce. Until 2 years ago we were working on an infrastructure which would allow us to move much faster and do things no competitor could do, the last 2 years we've been polishing our current product and we're slowly moving to innovation now.
You think we'd fully re-design the desktop infrastructure (plasma) into something which can do virtually anything - just to re-create the traditional desktop (panel on bottom with start menu left, taskarea center, systray & clock right and a background with icons)? Hell, no, but we had to - the users demanded it. So we started out with that, now we're moving on to actually make use of what we developed. The 4.3 release with an activity for each desktop is just the humble beginning. We've got great stuff in the pipeline for 4.4, like the social desktop things, a netbook interface and much more.
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Well, in all fairness, there's a open source version, though it is rather limited, and the project itself seems to slowly wither away.
Well, it depends on what you want I suppose. ownCloud does a lot of things with external storage, where we obviously have to store information about the files to offer search, sharing and all the other functionality. ownCloud 9.0 actually introduces the ability for ownCloud to use such features in the filesystem if they're there - or at least, a API to make the storage plugins do that. This is needed as we want to scale through the Petabyte storage barrier - see https://opensource.com/busines...
Sorry, ownCloud currently does no transcoding and things like that. While such functions could be added, it isn't there today. It can play videos - by providing them to your browser. Works for most formats, but not perfect. The music player is cool but doesn't scale, at least not to my collection (100 GB mp3's).
This is mostly meant as a 'file sync and share', that's the base of ownCloud: make your files available wherever you are, and wherever those files are (you can mount ftp, samba, webdav, dropbox and other things in ownCloud and get at your files in one place).
Hmm, I wrote the page, but didn't expect somebody to take the "a safe home for all your data" to mean you can sync your entire home. ownCloud is a replacement for the big proprietary end user 'clouds' like Google, Dropbox etc - give it one or multiple folders and the sync client syncs them between devices; you can share files, comment on them in the web UI, edit them online or locally and so on.
Sharing an entire home folder on Linux, no, that won't work. Lots of 'special' files and folders that won't be synced (eg symbolic or hard links, dotfiles and all that) because that would not work cross-platform, for one. And if you'd use two systems at once, you get loads of conflict files. Oh, and yes, permissions and user settings... probably wouldn't work either. The POSIX stuff is great but doesn't work on Windows or Mac so we just can't support that - lowest common denominator, sad but that's how it is - most of our 8 million users are on Windows.
Sorry that it didn't work out - and isn't designed that way. Hope you find another solution which can help you better.
The reason we don't support it is because it woudn't work on all platforms. Seriously, yes. If you know of a decent solution - let us know.
It's been improved but the company and community behind it are nearly dead (it wasn't primarily developed by ownCloud). So things were quiet until - Liberoffice Online came along and now Collabora is working on integrating that in ownCloud ;-)
We're working with CERN, AARNet and others to bring ownCloud to a higher level of scalability. right now, petabyte level filesystems are no problem but going beyond that is hard. ownCloud 9.0 introduces changes to break through that barrier. See https://opensource.com/busines... for more info. Of course, if you're merely talking about a few hundred terrabyte of data, ownCloud won't have any issues with it if it's set up properly. I suggest you check out the deployment recommendations: https://doc.owncloud.org/serve... There is ONE performance issue left: very many (thousands) of very small (under 100 KB) files syncing with the client. With very large files and fat network pipes, you probably also should increase the chunck size in the client to improve network performance.
Well, considering how ownCloud probably does more than seafile to secure seafile... https://seacloud.cc/group/3/wi... yeah, that's reported by our security guy. The other reports got silently fixed - there's not much of a proper, transparent security process there. But if you believe it's more secure than ownCloud, good luck with earning money on ownCloud's lack of security: https://owncloud.org/security - check the hackerone program.
I am sure that that is coming. Not next week, and help is welcome (even if just by convincing your company to buy LO), but it is on the agenda...
Surprise - you can do that too with the desktop client and mobile clients. The key is: access files however you want from wherever you want and share how you want with whomever you want. If you spend most of your time on one device, it is still useful for those few times you don't, or to share...
I tend to agree and disable plymouth on my systems. I also use Dracut (from factory, to test it) which makes that easy and makes booting even faster :D
Sure. But there is also this thing called real life, where you need patents to at least defend yourself against others - see what now happens in the mobile world with anyone who uses Android and doesn't have a strong set of patents - google can't protect you with the meager 50 patents they have so you get sued. the GLPv3 should be clarified or its use should not be forced - why not fork those projects using it, if companies can't ship it? I know little about licenses nor do I care much nor do I WANT to know more. It is just annoying to read that a company who was contributing to FOSS out of PRAGMATIC reasons is now quitting - that sucks. We need MORE of those Apples, not less. Big Meh. And if the GPLv3 is too blame, well, I just might start to think it is not a good license...
Considering that we are working on a Foundation and Attachmate has been very positive about openSUSE (even had some attachmaties join our marketing channel during the launch) I'd say we're going nowhere else but forward ;-)
I use the nvidia driver, the latest one still supports my geforce6600 - and there are a couple of older generations still being supported too. Granted, they don't benefit from feature development anymore - for that and more principal reasons I would prefer free drivers. However, it's not as bad and gloomy as you describe...
Well, KDE sure copies things - there are good ideas out there and we use them. But innovation is high on our agenda, if you follow dot.kde.org and planet.kde.org you'd know that. We want to lead, not recreate win'98 with a bit more usability sauce. Until 2 years ago we were working on an infrastructure which would allow us to move much faster and do things no competitor could do, the last 2 years we've been polishing our current product and we're slowly moving to innovation now. You think we'd fully re-design the desktop infrastructure (plasma) into something which can do virtually anything - just to re-create the traditional desktop (panel on bottom with start menu left, taskarea center, systray & clock right and a background with icons)? Hell, no, but we had to - the users demanded it. So we started out with that, now we're moving on to actually make use of what we developed. The 4.3 release with an activity for each desktop is just the humble beginning. We've got great stuff in the pipeline for 4.4, like the social desktop things, a netbook interface and much more.