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Submission + - Dropbox is dropping Linux after 11 years (dropboxforum.com)

Submitted by rokahasch on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:50PM

rokahasch writes: Starting today, 10th of August, most users of the Dropbox desktop app on Linux have been receiving notifications that their Dropbox will stop syncing starting November.

Over at the Dropbox forums, Dropbox have declared that the only Linux filesystem supported for storage of the Dropbox sync folder starting the 7th of November, will be on a clean EXT4 fs.

This basically means Dropbox drops Linux support completely, as almost all Linux distributions have other file systems as their standard installation defaults nowadays — not to mention encryption running on top of even an EXT4 file system which won't qualify as a clean EXT4 fs for Dropbox (such as ecryptfs which is the default in for example Ubuntu for encrypted home folders).

The thread is trending heavily on Dropbox' forums with the forum's most views since the thread started earlier today. The cries from a large amount of Linux users have so far remained unanswered from Dropbox, with most users finding the explanation given for this change unconvincing. The explanation given so far is that Dropbox requires a fs with support for Extended attributes/Xattrs. Extended attributes however are supported by all major Linux/Posix complaint file systems.

Dropbox have up until today supported Linux platforms since their services began back in 2007.

Comment better age match? (Score 1) 269

by Rizzer on Sunday October 16, 2011 @05:44AM (#37729224) Attached to: Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing?

better age match??

Türing was past 40 when he had the affair with the 20-something guy that led to his arrest and consequent suicide.

Leo's perfectly the right age for 40.

Comment Bad summary: no minister's defection (Score 4, Informative) 116

by Rizzer on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @05:49AM (#28106991) Attached to: Australian Government Backing Down On Censorship

The summary says "A minister's defection may have effectively blocked any chance of implementation."

But that link refers to Senator Nick Xenophon. He is an independent senator, not a Minister in the government.

Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All 445

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:49AM from the nevermind dept.

Thomas M Hughes writes "We're all familiar with the claim that it's horribly dangerous to allow our children on to the Internet. It's long been believed that the moment a child logs on to the Internet, he will experience a flood of inappropriate sexual advances. Turns out this isn't an accurate representation of reality at all. A high-profile task force representing 49 state attorneys general was organized to find a solution to the problem of online sexual solicitation. But instead the panel has issued a report (due to be released tomorrow) claiming that 'Social networks are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.' The report concluded that 'the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.' Turns out the danger to our children was all just media hype and parental anxiety." Those who have aggressively pushed the issue of the dangerous Internet, such as Connecticut's attorney general Richard Blumenthal, are less than happy with the report.

Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age 66

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @09:26PM from the just-when-it-was-getting-warmer dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Recent geological evidence gathered in Ohio and Indiana has been verified by a University of Cincinnati assistant professor as support of a comet theory, claiming a comet explosion over earth was the cause of drastic changes to life on our planet. This evidence strengthens initial data collected over a year ago. The explosion, which occurred over what is now Canada, caused the extinction of animals and cultures and lengthened the Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago that should have been coming to an end."

Comment Australian brethren (Score 1) 87

by Rizzer on Monday February 18, 2008 @01:28AM (#22459408) Attached to: Full Lunar Eclipse for the Americas on Wednesday

...ah, we had our own lunar eclipse last year thanks. America is only just catching up ;)

DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System 145

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 13, 2006 @10:04AM from the eharmony-should-get-right-on-this dept.

BluePariah writes "Wired News has an article on a 'cortically coupled computer vision' system being developed at Columbia University and funded by the ever-curious folks at DARPA. Essentially, it uses the extremely powerful visual recognition ability of the human brain and couples it with a computer's raw processing power to allow a user wearing an EEG cap to filter through scores of digital images at high-speed and pick out something of interest. This has applications in military intelligence, face-recognition, anti-terrorism, and hunting down replicants."

Linux Helping Oracle 148

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday April 09, 2006 @12:17PM from the more-the-merrier dept.

Mr. Fahrenheit writes "CNN has a story about how Oracle's effort to port their database to Linux may be helping them to out pace IBM." From the article: "In its biennial survey of the world's largest databases, WinterCorp, a database research and consulting company, reported that Oracle dominated its list of 175 large databases. For the first time, databases running on Linux appeared on WinterCorp's list -- and all of them came from Oracle."

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