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When will online-only files work on Linux?
I need to save space on my hard drive. Online-only files would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
edugsdf wrote:
I need to save space on my hard drive. Smart Sync would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
At the moment, Smart Sync is only available on Windows and Mac. Dropbox has made no announcement on its availability on Linux. They usually don't discuss timelines or upcoming features until they're reaady to announce them, so we likely won't know that it's coming until it's already here, assuming that it's coming at all.
Hi Hypersphere,
I can't agree, that linux isn't a single OS. Linux is single OS with multiple distributions (in fact tree of distributions). Of course, like anyone OS, there are different versions. I don't know exactly why Dropbox ignore Linux support, but there are FUSE capabilities available for everyone (present day) linux distributions. Just, single code piece is enough for support. Probably Dropbox dosen't heard about FUSE:laughing:, they know only Ext4. Seems just company politics...
One reason I think of linux not being a single OS is when I attempt to install and run software that is supported for RHEL or a clone such as CentOS on a Ubuntu-based distro such as Linux Mint. Various required libraries from RHEL do not have direct counterparts in Ubuntu, and it can be very difficult to gather the required files to get the RHEL-supported application to run on Ubuntu.
In my own case, I do not have a problem with Dropbox, because I do not use SmartSync. I am just glad that there is basic linux support. All too often with various applications, there is support for Windows and perhaps MacOS, but linux support is completely absent.
Nevertheless, I do agree that if a given application, such as Dropbox, is going to claim cross-platform support for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, ideally the application ought to have the same features across all supported platforms.
Hypersphere, I partially agree with You. Just one clarification - RHEL use much older versions than Ubuntu and Fedora! So would be no problem to transfer application from RHEL to Fedora for example, which isn't true in opposite direction. Anyway to support 'SmartSync', FUSE availability is enough, which is true in all cases (or at least could be added very easy).
