Create Linux client for Box Drive
James Gorman
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Thanks for your feedback. We unfortunately don’t have plans to support a Linux client for Box Drive at this time.
144 comments
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Anonymous
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it's a shame is not planed, I have been literally waiting for years for a official linux client, I guess I will keep using dropbox longer time.
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Anonymous
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Please support Linux.
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Anonymous
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As someone who has to use Linux in a professional/academical environment, a Linux client would be great. My university provides us with a Box account but a lot of teams work on Linux and we have to resort to other services.
Many services already support Linux like Dropbox and others and there seems to be a huge demand for it. It seems that the first requests for a Linux client date back to 2016 and porting the macOS client should be possible since Linux and macOS are both Unix-like/Unix systems.
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Anonymous
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Linux is here to stay.. so a Box Drive client for Linux would be great!
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Anonymous
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I would like to see a box client for my Operating system, my company uses box as its world wide file share service and provides a linux OS. I can not understand how in 2020 with so may users choosing or being required to use Linux Box would not support it.
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Anonymous
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Dropbox supports Linux just fine. Just saying.
Also, Linux has handled remote filesystems well for decades. We even have FUSE (filesystems in userspace).
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Anonymous
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My research group can use box through our institution for free. Yet we still pay for Dropbox for half a dozen people because half the workstations in our group run Linux.
Same situation in the startups I work with. Not having a client for Linux is ruling out box as a team wide option because some crucial machines need to run on Linux. We can't use it even if it were free.
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Anonymous
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"not planned" is a super sad status for the linux client.
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Anonymous
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We need this in higher ed.
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Anonymous
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My employer provides a Box enterprise account. We have tens of thousands of Linux users, yet there is no proper Linux support. When we were first signed up, we were assured internally that there were plans in place to work with Box to port the client. Then the ink dried on the paper and things went quiet...
(Of course, I have no idea what was actually discussed, and the purchasing is nothing to do with me.)
Only having the web interface means that Box is all but useless to me.
It seems particularly mad because Linux has very good support for networked filesystems. We even have a FUSE interface, so filesystems can run in userspace.
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Anonymous
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How can you talk about shaping the future of your product but excluding Linux from your roadmap?
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Anonymous
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714 votes, 132 coments and still you don't see a need for a Linux client?
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Anonymous
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This is very sad. I guess I'll continue to use Dropbox instead on the destkop at home and at work.
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Philip Leifeld
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I'm a university professor and would use Box with most of my collaborators if synchronisation with Linux was possible. My university does not permit the use of Dropbox and provides Box instead. That's fine, in principle, but I'm not using it for writing papers or managing data or projects with any of my PhD students, co-authors, or project partners, because none of us can use it properly. Instead we are keeping separate local directories and exchange files by email, which is not optimal. I really wish there was Linux support.
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Anonymous
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I decided to use Box as my primary online backup service. Then I found out there is no support for Linux. Google Drive it is.
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Anonymous
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Do the Box devs, or does anybody, have any another workarounds for now? I too would like a Linux Client.
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Anonymous
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Linux support is very important in this day and age. Please support at least Debian , Ubuntu , Red Hat, SuSE and Arch distros as well as their default desktop environments and file managers.
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Anonymous
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Linux client, please.
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Anonymous
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Would really appreciate box.com sync for linux. Thanks
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Anonymous
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Hi @rmashintchian,
could you please share with us, what are Box plans to support Linux users around the world using your service?
I can see your response from last year and I wonder if anything had changed.
Thank you for your understanding.