First ownCloud Sprint (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

KDE.News has a report on the first ownCloud sprint. ownCloud is a KDE initiative to put "cloud" services under the control of users. We looked at ownCloud 1.0 last June. "Probably the most important work was done on refactoring ownCloud's initial concept and work by Jakob Sack. These changes will help to make the codebase clearer, easier to maintain and a lot more flexible. ownCloud will be easy to extend with additional applications and plugins. In the very near future ownCloud's web-based storage system will be capable of being enriched by extensions like Music Streamers, Photo Galleries or PIM functionality — basically anything a PHP application can do."

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Might as well store the binaries on the server

Posted Apr 23, 2011 13:48 UTC (Sat) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

When I first read this a year ago I thought if KDE-applications all use the same library calls then maybe...

If you are going to store the data on a webserver so you have access to it everywhere, you might as well store the binaries on the server as well, so you have access to the applications as well. Like a dump NFS-server with a local cache. Just like with HTML5-apps. ;-)

You could even have a seperate directory with binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX for X86 and ARM and so on.