@scottalanmiller said:

Only so long, Gnome started doing huge damage nearly from day one. It divided the community right at the start of competing for the desktop. Hard to say if Windows NT would have gained the traction that it did if people saw a unified Linux desktop option at the time. KDE was years ahead of Windows 2000.

Very true, but if he did it for this reason, he only got rewarded now - that's quite a long time to wait

Of course, there might've been some money at an earlier stage and Novell, of course, bought Ximian - an even more brilliant ploy as it destroyed the strongest KDE distribution (SUSE) through infighting and allowed Red Hat to take the market, pushing inferior (to this day...) technology to the Linux Desktop.

I really like the Digital Ocean tutorial series they did a while ago, like installing MediaWiki. Creating something which you can use at home also helps make projects like these a bit more personal - and thus interesting. Build your own media server (samba, ftp or a bit more advanced like ownCloud). Just make sure it stays a challenge: buy some Raspberry Pi's or Zero's and cluster a web app with MySQL, Redis and stuff like that...

@scottalanmiller said in What do you think, did we do this right?:

Can you ever hide the bad stuff from the bad guys? Bad guys will just run the product and get any announcement that is sent out no matter what. That's a given. But the most important thing is letting good admins know what to do, bad admins that don't update - that's their decision and risk.

Well, not fully of course, it is all open source. But the barrier to getting at the problem is a fair bit higher when there are hundreds of changes and some might or might not have a security impact vs you have 5 changes and you KNOW they impact security. It won't stop the NSA but might stop a script kiddie and at least give people more time to update.

I'm not saying it is a magic bullet, but it is widely considered security best practice to do it this way

Anyway, I'm hoping for automated minor updates to solve this in a more elegant way. We've decreased the target on the back of Nextcloud users significantly with our security scan - only 3% outdated systems is a quite small thing to put time and effort in if you're looking to do something like ransomware.

@Dashrender for us the end goal is to provide something for home users, way cheaper and more flexible than a NAS.

The idea of backup to a cloud service - YES YES YES

Congrats

@scottalanmiller True, if/when it grows a bit stronger this could be a SMB platform as well. The new enclosure we work on can handle 2 7mm hard drives, thus even offering RAID posibilities.

But the Raspberry platform itself (1, 2 or 3) doesn't have SATA capabilities and probably won't get that. I'm still hoping/waiting for a platform which does have that, yes, you're right that SATA is really a big boost for performance. So would be 1Gbit ethernet...

Hi all,

We have indeed made available maintenance releases for all our supported releases. It is highly recommended to upgrade to benefit from the security and stability improvements. Learn more in the blog

Sadly the VM's aren't updated yet so I didn't announce until yesterday. But it isn't clear when VM's come so - it is out now

Our iOS client also was updated!

In other news, the ImageTragick security vulnerability can affect ownCloud installations. We strongly recommend to check your setup and take action if you need to, steps detailed here.

Thanks and take care!

ownCloud will no longer be in newer Debian releases so it's good to move to upstream packages. That's not entirely trivial so we wrote a how-to blog.

Hope it helps, and feedback welcome!

Nextcloud 9 is fully compatible with ownCloud 9 - it is a fork and, you know, we wrote it

It uses the ownCloud app store for now. We'll probably release our enterprise apps there, too, the coming weeks. Let's see

@coliver said in THANKS TO YOU: Nextcloud 9 is here - and all open source, now and in the future!:

Will we see things like the SSO login plugin be moved to open source as well?

ABSOLUTELY. Everything!

Great article from eweek covering the #Nextcloud release with some interesting background facts.

Security advisories from our July 5th release are online, be sure to be up to date! See https://nextcloud.com/security/advisories/

@travisdh1 Collabora Online is provided as a docker container. Run it on your server, install the Collabora integration app in Nextcloud, connect, done

See the full how-to on our site.

@aidan_walsh yes, same with Nextcloud and Pydio. All projects are split up, as I note in the blog, which is why I also looked at statistics from OpenHub which looks at ALL repositories associated to a project.

However, in a conversation with Seafile, it came up that their specific way of organization and way of working does make them look worse than it is: while github also shows lines of code changed, OpenHub does not. And they say their core contributors work often with very large commits so it doesn't show the activity very well relative to other projects. It still shows a decline in activity the last year or so, though, but they said the fork had no effect as the German team didn't contribute code anyway.

Note that I wasn't out to specifically make anyone look bad, though obviously putting the numbers next to each other makes clear how things are, relatively speaking. That is why I sampled a wide range of numbers rather than cherry picking the last day or only one statistic.

Alas, it is still statistics, and you can only trust those you doctor yourself, so all the links in the article go directly to where I took the data from and people can check for themselves.

I honestly didn't know what I could do in a nicer and more balanced way to point out how we're doing and how that stacks up in the open source file sync and share world. But suggestions welcome.

We just released RC1 and - you can win a t-shirt by finding upgrading issues! https://nextcloud.com/blog/win-a-t-shirt-by-testing-nextcloud-11-rc1/

@wirestyle22 said in Nextcloud 11 Beta is out! Help test the **** out of it, we need privacy protecting alternatives more than ever...:

What if I'm the problem?

well, in that case you probably need the hug I talked about on the bottom of the blog

@scottalanmiller Berlin is quite nice, indeed - but not in April. Sorry, but the hard reality is that the city is just not worth visiting during winter

It's a place that really blooms in summer.

@scottalanmiller Awesoem. I must say, the earlier beta's were quite messy compared to earlier releases, but it stabilized around the last beta and the RC's were ok. Haven't seen any big breakage either with final, so it worked out!