[rdl]

This is awesome. AeroFS does everything I want in a file sharing system -- I can either run it entirely on my own machines on LAN and potentially VPN, or at a company on a network also not connected to the Internet, or I can use it as a direct Dropbox alternative (although it lacks some mobile clients and API support).

I've been using it for ~a year or two in beta, as well as all the other alternatives. I still use Dropbox for interoperating with other people who use Dropbox, and for a couple mobile devices which don't support anything else, and I use iCloud for mainly Apple app sync (although it seems to suck for most non-Apple apps) between OSX and iOS, but AeroFS is my preferred option for general file sharing use.

The only downside I've found is dealing with Java on certain OSes (OSX and Windows 7 at times), but generally OS-level Java is fine, it's browser Java which sucks.

[newman314]

I'm not too keen on the fact that AeroFS runs on Java as I would prefer to run Java free systems as much as possible (Go version would be nice =) but am willing to live with it if that's the only option.

[yurisagalov]

We're working on it (a Java-free system, not a Go version, sorry ;)

See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484566

[songgao]

Yeah it's still considered Java. While it's been working wonderfully, this still bothers me a little bit. And why not a Go version?

Any chance to open the protocol so other people can work on different clients?

[brass9]

That's still considered Java - even if you're bundling the runtime dependencies within the app...

[urza]

Exactly, I removed java from all my computers about week ago. And since I am having my personal debian server, I installed ownCloud 5 on it for filesyncing.. and I am happy so far.. the clients are in C++

[st3fan]

Every single release of OwnCloud includes security fixes. From XSS to SQLi. I have very little confidence in that PHP project from a security point of view.

[urza]

You can help them with that, it is opensource.

[notimetorelax]

How do you run it on a network disconnected from Internet? That's a very interesting scenario for the company I work at. I assumed that you need to login with AeroFS credentials when setting up clients and servers, is there an alternative?

[yurisagalov]

Depends on the size of your company, we'd like to explore this a bit further. Shoot us an email at [e-mail] and we'll follow up ASAP

[bobf]

AeroFS is awesome! I've been using it since the alpha release and have had nothing but positive experiences. Like rdl says, it does everything I want in a file sharing system.

[k2enemy]

I was also a long-time user of AeroFS, but SyncApp from BitTorrent has worked much better for me so I've switched over. I would recommend giving it a try.