Tribulaciones.org » utils http://tribulaciones.org A blog about me and whatever insterests me Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Giver: little util for sharing folders http://tribulaciones.org/2008/12/giver-little-util-for-sharing-folders/ http://tribulaciones.org/2008/12/giver-little-util-for-sharing-folders/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:50:20 +0000 jsogo http://tribulaciones.org/?p=97 While searching for different options to share files among different computers in a local LAN I found via Planet Ubuntu giver a little util which uses avahi/zeroconf to publish shared folders or files. It is a easy tool, that works and that serve well its purpose.
But its development has stopped some time ago, and that means that nobody has cared to port it to Windows, where it would be an
interesting tool to avoid the need of using windows network to share folders, which in an ad-hoc network tends to work problematically.

These little gems should receive more care from freedesktop.org, GNOME Foundation, Canonical, Novell, … as are the utils that make a difference in desktop expecience. Having a nice visual effects is not enough to attract people to free destops, but having tools that make everyday life is.

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