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.

"not planned" is a super sad status for the linux client.

We need this in higher ed.

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.

How can you talk about shaping the future of your product but excluding Linux from your roadmap?

714 votes, 132 coments and still you don't see a need for a Linux client?

This is very sad. I guess I'll continue to use Dropbox instead on the destkop at home and at work.

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.

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.

Do the Box devs, or does anybody, have any another workarounds for now? I too would like a Linux Client.

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.

Linux client, please.

Would really appreciate box.com sync for linux. Thanks

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.

Please add a Linux Client

Add Linux Support.

Please add a Linux client

If ExpanDrive can make a Box client for Linux, why not Box?

For on-site automation work this would be a huge help! We could leverage on-site data stores, process data locally and distribute to the cloud very fast.

Specifically we're looking at on-site video transcoding from massive raw video files. To batch process these locally and distribute transcodes to Box without uploading the terabytes of raw footage to cloud process we can save time and money.

They will never do it. If they knew how to code properly it would be OS independent, They probably can't code and just use .net or something unsafe like that.
I wonder how safe the data is, coming from a company that can't code. Maybe what, 400 lines of code?