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 totally believe that there are reasons to dislike the currently proposed solutions to deal with climate change. And yeah, Republicans might have a problem with those solutions rather than the problem itself. They do seem to produce pretty massive numbers of quotes which don't show any of that, making it rather hard to believe this study - but hey. Benefit of the doubt. Then how about the do some good proposals which deal with the problem equally well but in a way which takes economic realities into account? I'm dying to hear better ideas than government regulations - I can't believe the Democrats wouldn't rejoice if a realistic proposal to combat climate change was put on the table by a Republican, even if it didn't involve government regulations. And the rest of the world would love it too, I bet. Carbon Fee and Dividend is heavily opposed by Republicans, by the way, and certainly a government thing, so I don't see how this is any better than the current proposals...

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