Re: [Discuss] Anyone tried Sparkleshare.org yet?

2011-06-28 Thread Ian Levesque
On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Jack Coats wrote: Sparkleshare is an opensource version of Dropbox. They say currently implemented for Linux and Mac. Has anyone tried it out yet? I've recently given it a go hoping to be able to provide a dropbox-like experience for some users at work that

Re: [Discuss] Anyone tried Sparkleshare.org yet?

2011-06-28 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Ian Levesque i...@crystal.harvard.eduwrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Jack Coats wrote: Sparkleshare is an opensource version of Dropbox. They say currently implemented for Linux and Mac. Has anyone tried it out yet? I've recently given it a go

Re: [Discuss] Anyone tried Sparkleshare.org yet?

2011-06-28 Thread Benjamin Carr
I have to add that I was looking at it is a solution as well (and a move away from dropbox) and only with a handful of users. While it works for me it's not there for other, even technically talented, users. We were using the mac front-end 0.2 package and a linux server with git as the backend. As

Re: [Discuss] Anyone tried Sparkleshare.org yet?

2011-06-28 Thread Richard Pieri
On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Benjamin Carr wrote: One another list it was pointed out that this is a reboot/complete rewrite of the old Novell ifolder product. Has anyone had success with that product? It too is open source: http://ifolder.com but it is built on Mono at this point, just a

Re: [Discuss] Hardware Hacking

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Metro
Derek Martin wrote: Do we really need a separate list for this? That's a valid question, and I did consider whether it was worth setting up and subscribing to yet another mailing list. It's relevant to Linux (so it's on topic)... Well, this is Boston Linux/UNIX, and what is on topic here is