OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23048/Gnome_KDE_To_Create_FLOSS_Alternative_to_Dropbox_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:42:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Don't we already have this http://www.osnews.com/thread?414958 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414958 ........in Ubuntu One? Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mrsteveman1) Comments RE: Don't we already have this http://www.osnews.com/thread?414960 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414960 the entire thing isn't Free/Open Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments correction http://www.osnews.com/thread?414973 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414973 This story is not entirely correct.

The stories reefers to the ownCloud project we started at KDE at this years Camp KDE conference in January.
The idea is a complete cloud solution which runs on you own server or desktop or can be hosted by a provider. It will be a companion service to your KDE Desktop. This is more than just DropBox. It will also be a music server, a picture gallery, storage for your KDE configuration and more.

At the moment we are looking for ways to work together with GNOME because collaboration is always good.

Cheers
Frank Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FrankKarlitschek) Comments RE: Don't we already have this http://www.osnews.com/thread?414975 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414975 Ubuntu One is proprietary. You can´t run your own server and all you personal files are stored on a remote server.
This is one of the problems we want to solve with ownCloud. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FrankKarlitschek) Comments RE: correction http://www.osnews.com/thread?414980 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414980
The stories reefers to the ownCloud project we started at KDE at this years Camp KDE conference in January.
The idea is a complete cloud solution which runs on you own server or desktop or can be hosted by a provider.


The aim, I guess, being to standardise this kind of thing, so a user can sign up with any provider, and just configure their desktop with a URL and authentication details? And of course, to allow anyone to *be* a provider? Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Delgarde) Comments RE: correction http://www.osnews.com/thread?414981 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414981 I actually did mention that:

"The ownCloud idea is that everybody can host it individually but a hosted solution will also be possible. In the beginning it will allow file hosting like Dropbox, but then add a lot more features like an individual music server or photo gallery." Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hotice) Comments iFolder http://www.osnews.com/thread?414993 http://www.osnews.com/thread?414993 This might be reinventing the wheel... iFolder has been open source for quite a while:

http://ifolder.com/ifolder Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yimmy149) Comments RE: correction http://www.osnews.com/thread?415009 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415009 owncloud?
gnome frontend?
shared project?

YES YES one thousand times YES!

This will stomp the competition as long as I can run it all from my own data server and not have to pay someone else for syncing data over the internet like dropbox. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stabbyjones) Comments EyeOS http://www.osnews.com/thread?415038 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415038 It would be even cooler to get eyeOS2.0 working within ownCloud and allowing users to have full roaming Home folders hosted on their own server.

That would allow them to sit down at any Linux desktop machine and access their own user settings / configurations and files stored on the server (not all files would have to be, just synced ones) ... or fire up a web browser and navigate to their server to access and manipulate their synced docs, E-Mail, etc via eyeOS. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Coward) Comments RE: EyeOS http://www.osnews.com/thread?415087 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415087 Doesn't EyeOS assume a browser as the interface? That's not very helpful to GNOME or KDE integration. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments RE: iFolder http://www.osnews.com/thread?415089 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415089 iFolder is a fine, fine piece of technology, but it has its issues.

1) It's written in C#
2) Hard to make it work in non-novell situations
3) It's 'just' a folder sync and does not have any other could-type services. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments RE[2]: correction http://www.osnews.com/thread?415142 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415142 You should probably have linked to the ownCloud announcement to give some background knowledge. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superstoned) Comments RE[2]: EyeOS http://www.osnews.com/thread?415148 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415148 It does, but it would be like the Web client fall back for VNC.

Works optimally with the platform specific client (KDE/GNOME) or if the client isn't available (Kiosk/Windows/Mac/Etc) a web client could be available. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Coward) Comments Eazel's Nautilus? http://www.osnews.com/thread?415276 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415276 If I recall correctly didn't Eazel develop a business model years ago with file sync'ing using gnome/nautilus? Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gchisholm) Comments