…and I’m not happy about it.<\/p>\n
Oh, its not really Suse’s fault directly. Or Opensuse’s fault specifically. In fact it is a combination of faults, including my own. But mostly, it is Novell’s fault.<\/p>\n
You see, I cannot live without iFolder. And I realize that now, more than ever.<\/p>\n
Aside: Here are two great links for catching up on — and following the progress — this conundrum:<\/p>\n
I live in a world of mostly Linux computers, with a handful of Windows computers, and I use iFolder (as you’ve probably noticed from past posts) to keep my personal data world perfectly in sync between these OSs.<\/p>\n
When Opensuse 11.1 came out a couple months ago, I jumped right on it as I always do for their new releases. As nice as it was\/is, it took me a frustrating week or so to realize that no matter how much I hacked at it, I could not make the iFolder stuff work on my new installation. Argh.<\/p>\n
Why? It’s because of many of the aspects of iFolder (and the sub-requirements thereof) require GTK stuff (GNOME stuff) from the last release. If you run KDE, you can back-rev enough of the components to get by. Well, I don’t and I can’t. And I won’t. Why in the heck can’t there be a command-only version of iFolder, disassociated from the GUI (like JungleDisk)? If that were the case, I’d certainly have been able to get it working as a background-only process, and that would be fine. In fact, that would be preferred. In fact, now that I think about it, that would be awesome.<\/p>\n
Now, a couple months later, I’m still forced to try and remember that every time I change a file on my Opensuse 11.1 laptop, I need to copy it up to my iFolder server Web Access interface. Jeez, like I can remember to do that…<\/p>\n
So, as home\/documents directories on my two OSs grow further and further astray, I become more and more frustrated, and feel more and more out of control. I have come to the conclusion that I *have* to go back to Opensuse 11.0, where I am able to hack together the iFolder client to work just fine.<\/p>\n
Honestly folks, this is just a rant. No point to make other than how frustrated I am. And how I wish Novell would have thought this through beforehand. And how I wish Novell would have kept feeding the source code to the public (as required) so that this would not (or at least should not) have happened. And how I wish somebody smart were still compiling the code for iFolder versions 3.4 or 3.6 or 3.whatever for the new Opensuse 11.1.<\/p>\n
I’m going to keep hoping, but I’m not holding my breath. Now where’d I leave that 11.0 net-install iso….?<\/p>\n
Argh.<\/p>\n
UPDATE, 20090323: There’s hope!!! See this:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/zonker.opensuse.org\/2009\/03\/23\/update-on-ifolder\/<\/a><\/p>\n UPDATE, 20090331: Source code has been made available again…<\/p>\n http:\/\/apps.sourceforge.net\/mediawiki\/ifolder3\/index.php?title=Subversion_Instructions<\/a><\/p>\n UPDATE, 20090401: No fooling, the iFolder site has been re-launched, and the project re-vamped…<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ifolder.com\/ifolder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …and I’m not happy about it. Oh, its not really Suse’s fault directly. Or Opensuse’s fault specifically. In fact it is a combination of faults, including my own. But mostly, it is Novell’s fault. You see, I cannot live without…
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