Comments on: openSUSE and online services

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:20:15 +0000

Well, in NL several parties are rolling out Fiber to the Home and with speeds of 50 to over 100 MBit/s, we’re getting close to reasonable connection speeds ;-)

But you’re right that having a local ‘cache’ will, for the time being, be needed. That’s what most cloudy storage solutions offer – including Dropbox, iFolder and ownCloud. Fully working without local storage, yes, that’s quite hard. And frankly I’m not sure if I ever want to, there are places without network connection, you know…

By: jdd

jdd — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:21:09 +0000

cloud is a very vague concept. Linux/openSUSE have (and always had) all the tools to synchronise data from two computers, said laptop and cloud storage.
But cloud should mean that *all* the data is always online, the local computer being able to store nothing if necessary.
And this is not to be possible anytime soon. Nowaday, people want more and more large files, let’s only speak of 18Mpix photos with 8MB each, HD Video with 10Gb for one hour, HD films for 25Gb a Blu-Ray. It’s fairly simple to catch them *from* the cloud, like Video On Demand do, but what about your own photos, films or either good quality music?
You certainly wont *upload* them to the cloud from wireless! You need at least fiberglass connection, and that is not to be available for anybody before many years, if ever.
So your own cloud is better be an USB disk :-)))

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:41:12 +0000

Don’t worry, ownCloud will get the attention it deserves :D

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:40:43 +0000

Dude, thanks for the reminder! I won’t forget it :D

By: jedibeeftrix

jedibeeftrix — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:32:45 +0000

or Frank’s Owncloud stuff, which appears to be coming along nicely………..

By: pblouin

pblouin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:15:31 +0000

I sure hope you don’t forget to include iFolder in the group of file sharing and syncing services. Everyone seems to want their own personal Dropbox and iFolder is pretty darn close to that – and pretty close to serving as your own private / internal cloud.