Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 21, 2022 23:54 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix by ceplm
Parent article: Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

> What I was thinking was that all my data are somewhere in The Cloud and whatever machine I use to access them (workstation, my hobby home laptop, tablet, or phone) I get access to the same data.

Perkeep (previously Camlistore) is an attempt to solve this problem.

Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 22, 2022 19:28 UTC (Sat) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (1 responses)

OK, an interesting idea I will try to learn more about it. Two problems seem obvious, why I think keeping it on the lower level of a filesystem makes more sense is that nobody wants to use any format they don’t already use (https://xkcd.com/743/), and the second is that I have never heard about, so I don’t expect it to take over the world anytime soon.

Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 22, 2022 21:57 UTC (Sat) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link]

Hmm, I have to revert myself a bit. I was talking about completely independent system and then I was talking about using “normal” formats, which is mutually exclusive. Damn.

Concerning Perkeep, it looks interesting, but more as a secondary story for backup and archiving (something similar to https://github.com/ThinkUpLLC/ThinkUp ?) not as something where you actually work.