For good reasons, you decided to go for an open source solution but there are several different projects to choose from. Which one to pick? Here are four things to keep an eye on. 1. Health of the project By far the most important question...
Mehr lesenWe recently got sent a scan of the Dutch Linux Magazine which covered Nextcloud last January in a rather awesome way. André Fondse contributed two-factor authentication support for Telegram and described in the article how that came to be and how it went. It made for...
Mehr lesenOpen source Evernote competitor Joplin introduced Nextcloud integration, making it easy for users to keep their notes to themselves. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share server designed to keep you in control over your data. And notes! Joplin and Nextcloud are...
Mehr lesenToday Nextcloud releases Nextcloud Talk for Android 1.1. This update brings a number of interface and feature improvements to the Android app, including Push-to-talk, F-Droid support and improved call actions. Nextcloud Talk is a self-hosted, enterprise-ready audio/video and text chat solution giving users the highest...
Mehr lesenWe have made available minor updates to Nextcloud 11, 12 and 13. As usual, these bring stability and reliability improvements and we urge all users to upgrade at their earliest convenience! Customers can rely on the stand-by upgrade support from Nextcloud GmbH if needed. If...
Mehr lesenSome of you might be familiar with the Nextcloud Markdown Editor. It has been improving steadily over the last months, encompassing a wide variety of capabilities beyond simple Markdown. Markdown? Wikipedia explains Markdown like this: Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting...
Mehr lesenOCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) is one of the many organizations that were involved with the release of the Panama Papers. Considering the nature of work OCCRP does, they rely heavily on vendor neutral, enterprise grade open source technologies. We talked to Michał...
Mehr lesenDropbox, in its S1-statement last Friday, showed it reduced its operating costs by nearly 75 million over the next two years by moving storage away from Amazon onto its own infrastructure. Cost savings are only one part of why moving away from cloud storage can...
Mehr lesenUsers tend to use the same passwords in multiple locations, which poses a significant risk in case passwords are stolen. Last Thursday, Security researcher Troy Hunt, known from his site HaveIBeenPwned, expanded his existing dataset of 306 million leaked passwords with another 200 million, bringing...
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