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When will Google Drive come to Linux? arnieswap 7/12/12 1:16 AM It's been 4-5 months now and still there is no Google Drive client for Linux. I want to ask Google teams is Gdrive client coming to Linux or not? If yes, when. If not, despite Google being a heavy Linux user itself, why not?Thanks.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? smakked 7/12/12 2:07 AM Yes. This really must be a priority for Google to get done, so many FOSS users yet we seemed to be overlooked yet again.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? philobyte 7/12/12 3:08 AM ChromeOS and Android are both Linux... they have support for those... what's the hold up?http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/google-chrome-os/
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Masonicmoron 7/12/12 2:14 PM Hi Linux is coming, but as with all updates from Google there is not a time scale for this. It could be a few weeks or months Best regards MM
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? mikkay 7/16/12 10:39 AM some week or some month? To me it means nothing...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DJDILL 7/17/12 2:48 AM I love drive on Android and the web version.. but a client for Ubuntu would just rock :-)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Teresa - Docs & Drive Community Manager 7/17/12 7:01 AM Hi everyone - Google Drive for Linux is still in the works. Thanks for following up with us!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ojoavizor 7/17/12 7:18 AM Ok, but I would say it is the last of your priorities. How many of your others priorities don't have a release date? I just had to move all my  files to Dropbox because you don't give me support in Ubuntu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? jgwak 7/17/12 11:14 AM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Mario Lopez 7/17/12 8:56 PM I would also like to see a Linux version. +1 :)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? joncrel 7/18/12 3:25 AM I'm pleased to hear it.  At the moment I'm directing my colleagues back to dropbox as it is the only cross platform tool.  I venture to suggest that Drive will fail unless it has a linux client real soon, since many groups of users include some using
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? jrwyatt 7/18/12 3:25 PM https://plus.google.com/u/0/113819779884554230663/posts/VjjyhcB1Dof The only thing we can really vote with in society is with dollars, the only thing we can really vote with in the community is adoption! I will not be adopting Drive for any reason
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? jrwyatt 7/18/12 3:27 PM Placation is a marketing tactic, we're asking when it will be done. Freemium is also a marketing tactic, it's not like you're not going to make money on this. C'mon!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rvaliant 7/18/12 9:22 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? lee1 7/20/12 11:38 AM Glad it's a priority. Linux users are early adopters and are influential. They're often approached for computer advice by less technical friends and associates. Keeping one Linux user happy can cause many non-linux users to decide to use a product. 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? cpjones44 7/23/12 7:29 PM I don't understand why there is no Linux client for Drive. I've gone back to using Dropbox to keep my Linux hosts in sync.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rukanda 7/24/12 10:01 AM I intended to move from Dropbox to GDrive. I use both Win and Linux. I had to go back to Dropbox and looks like I have to stay as their service is improving in many directions! GDrive is too slow with critical features like multi-platform support!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? srimalik 7/25/12 1:23 AM I have moved back to dropbox. The only thing remaining is to change the files in google docs(gsheet etc) format to a PC friendly format(doc/odt).
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? hewbert 7/27/12 8:30 PM Please hurry.  Something like cloud syncing really needs to be as multi-platform as possible to be practical among geeks.  Geeks are the biggest advocates and advertisers of technologies, and you folks know that.  If Google Drive was already multi-pl
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ThisIsTom 7/28/12 8:25 AM So glad to hear that, Teresa! In and of itself, the Linux community isn't large enough to have made this a first priority, obviously, from a business standpoint, but to get it done now is important. In my case, I run a small business with a total of
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Cajhne 7/29/12 2:54 PM Teresa, after Google recently stopped Linux support for Picasa... I'm having issues believing Google cares about Linux. If my "priorities" went un-done for almost half a year after the announcement that it's "coming soon", I'd be fired. Moreover, the
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Luc Ippersiel 7/29/12 5:25 PM I've also been awaiting for an answer to this. I love GDrive (even over some lack of functionality like sync with PIcasa) but many months after launch no sync client nof *nix?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Papa Bear 7/29/12 10:25 PM Have you seen third-party Insync for Linux? http://blog.insynchq.com/private/qAmrbBksov 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? drosophyllum 8/5/12 12:29 PM Shame.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? anavarrog 8/5/12 12:36 PM It's always the same story ... forgotten forever.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dr.frankinfurter 8/5/12 1:35 PM "Google Drive for Linux remains a priority for the team." If it was a priority then it would have been done already. If you're not going to release a client, then just say so. That way, some developers could release a Linux client by themselves. If y
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? xrules12 8/6/12 11:59 PM Hey Teresa,  if it continues to remain a priority.. then it is not a priority to begin with. It seems it is just an obligation that you want to fulfill. Saddening to see the state where coming soon stays on for months while third party applications c
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Tognolo 8/7/12 3:18 AM C'mon guys, Google Drive is still a free resource, Google have no obligation to develop a Linux version for that. Unfortunately Linux OS is the 1% of the OS scenario. Who use Linux accept to follow the hard way, but there are so many developers that
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? British Bear 8/7/12 9:12 AM I would dearly love to make use of gdrive for myself and my research group since we make use of a fair array of google offering and products already and in fact, initially singed up for several hundred Gb of cloud space. However, the various partiall
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Disk1of5 8/7/12 10:10 AM i'm assuming this will be a open source project..Would it be possible if Google could create a Google Code Project so the community can at least check on updates with out hassling the forums.. this also gives us the chance to provide feedback and bug
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Cajhne 8/7/12 12:20 PM If the first step in getting Google Drive working is to install Windows, or buy a Mac, then no, it's not "a free resource".That's why we're here asking Google to support its roots. Yes, that's right, most of Google runs on Linux machines, and they've
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Tognolo 8/7/12 4:19 PM Il giorno martedì 7 agosto 2012 21:20:05 UTC+2, Cajhne ha scritto:[...] Even android is Linux based, so that whole "Linux is only 1% of the entire OS scenario" argument isn't only false, it's downright ignorant. Go do some actual research before spre
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? philobyte 8/8/12 5:14 AM Linux is a kernel, not an operating system.  The gnu userland isn't Linux.  For example, Debian has the option to run on BSD kernels, in which case you are running Debian without running Linux.( http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ )  Chrome OS
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Hans Boldt 8/11/12 1:59 PM First, the stats for my personal web page shows 2.6% of visitors using Linux. This web site has little to appeal specifically to Linux users, so the number is probably a better estimate of desktop Linux penetration. Second, granted, that number is s
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tijmz 8/16/12 4:23 AM That <1% argument does not apply to collaborative software or, well, it applies way less. As soon as a project team has someone using Linux, Drive is a less interesting solution. For collaborative software you have to consider how many teams have som
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? baditaflorin 8/16/12 9:46 AM I want this feature, and not in 10 months, it`s so usefull
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sheehanje 8/17/12 12:53 PM I'm hoping for an Ubuntu version myself.  I am using Ubuntu One for storage right now, but would definitely like to go up to 100GB for $4.99 .. Until Google ports Drive to Linux, I won't use the Play store, or buy a Nexus.  Not that I don't like eit
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Cajhne 8/18/12 6:24 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Cajhne 8/18/12 6:28 PM Philobyte said it best, but thought that I'd add that no one here believes you're a Debian user, Tognolo. No Linux user from any distribution is going to come on a forum like this and say "C'mon guys, you don't need a Linux version of this! It's Free
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? The Immortal Moo 8/19/12 1:38 PM Thanks for Lettings us know  :)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? .Jazz 8/19/12 3:56 PM Agreed, Google is being a little slack here.  Linux users are usually decision makers/influence-rs so it's a bit silly to leave us out in the cold.  I know for one that I won't be raving about GDrive until I can use it myself, and I have a company fu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ShaeSays 8/21/12 7:38 AM Agreed. I could also use a Linux version.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? eestrada 8/21/12 11:00 AM Agreed. I would also add that this can have a multi-level effect. I am an long time Linux user and many of my choices in software and hardware are based on whether there is Linux support available. My wife trusts my opinion when it comes to technical
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? eestrada 8/21/12 11:17 AM I think the biggest problem isn't the lack of the client (although that is a big one); I think the real issue is feeling we are all in the dark. I understand if all of the code can't be open sourced (e.g. Chromium vs. Chrome), but if we could have so
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Cajhne 8/21/12 2:13 PM http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/insync-brings-google-drive-to-ubuntu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? arnieswap 8/21/12 2:27 PM @cajhnel: we are talking about Google Drive for Linux here, not some third party tools which I can't trust with my data.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dashesy 8/21/12 4:55 PM I will buy a pro account (and switch from dropbox) the moment there is a Linux client version.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? google at michaelcole.com 8/22/12 11:57 AM Bummer.  Just like G+ for Google Apps.  Never forget! :-p Mike
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? frager1 8/22/12 1:21 PM I agree with this.  Currently I use dropbox (easy), spideroak (better security), ubuntu one (nicely integrated) and have tried owncloud (not easy).  The price point of Drive is good enough that I'd consolidate all of them when they come out with a li
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? chipz88 8/22/12 6:00 PM It is clearly not a priority.  Have you ever heard the expression "actions speak louder than words?"  No release means it's not a priority.  There are now multiple open source solutions that have been developed after drive was released.  If it were a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Papa Bear 8/24/12 12:07 AM Curious, can you use Chrome Remote Desktop BETA https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? johnwchadwick 8/25/12 12:26 AM Honestly when I first heard Google Drive was coming I was sure it would be a better tool than the competitors, but this is really kind of crap. It's the same thing every time with Linux support for everything; nobody will just be honest. If you have
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ohforfs 8/25/12 12:13 PM The reason is simple. Ubuntu with Google Drive (=docs) competes directly with Google Chromebook. This is why they are dragging their feet and pretending it's coming soon. The suits have told them not to release it while they are trying to push Chrome
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? McVoiceX 8/26/12 9:57 AM Windows is more chaotic. Linux is the operating system of the future. More and more people worldwide are using Linux. Google has created Android and ChromeOS, but it provides for Linux systems too little tools ...! This is sad! Windows wird immer ch
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ohforfs 8/26/12 3:17 PM I love Linux! I have many linux devices - my problem is that I wish google would just talk to us straight ;)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? frager1 8/27/12 10:23 AM FYI google. I just signed a 1 year deal with spideroak.  Try me again in the future if you think you're ready to compete.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Daniel NZ 8/28/12 9:22 PM Adding a request for a linux client here!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? westerj 8/29/12 11:31 AM Hey Gpeople, Please help us understand why there is no client for Picasa or GDrive that will work with our primary OS of choice, Linux. We all have family members ( most have substantial numbers of unrelated friends too! ) and tend to lead that gro
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? holandes 8/30/12 3:00 AM Simply put Google, you are loosing money by not having a Linux drive client, and you do each day it passes. I know they know this, so it's a matter of time to have the client for our favorite OS. We are patient but please hurry guys!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? brealorg 8/30/12 3:15 AM Can we at leaste get a ETA? This is backwards retarded!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ThisIsTom 8/30/12 8:02 AM Thought this was an interesting article in ZDNet, about how Google itself is standardized on Ubuntu desktop internally, so either they're not using Google Drive, themselves, or they've just chosen to not share it with the rest of us: http://goo.gl/kH
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sgrayban 8/30/12 3:41 PM I have left Google drive for Dropbox instead. Google you are only hurting yourself... at least I know now that linux users are not important to you.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Mark Nealon 9/1/12 4:29 PM Dear Google,Please give us an update.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? brealorg 9/1/12 4:42 PM You got a point there sir.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? numbrain 9/2/12 10:34 AM couldn't you just release the source code that you used for the android version so we can compile our own clients?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? NevynH 9/3/12 1:13 AM I find myself suspicious. Porting to Linux would be trivial compared to porting to Windows or MacOS X. In which case, has Google purposely dropped Linux support as a priority due to ChromeOS. From my point of view, ChromeOS's biggest competition is a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? geertj 9/3/12 7:37 AM *bump*.. Google, we are waiting for this!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? arqueonautis 9/3/12 9:10 AM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Rene Raggl 9/3/12 2:41 PM That's another +1 from the Netherlands! Would love to see this coming soon, as it would make my work setup perfect!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Michele1 9/4/12 9:11 AM Hello Teresa, I'll leave some quick consideration, in line with what already wrote, just in case it can be helpful for your statistic to set the priority according with your business. I'm also using a linux OS (Ubuntu) and (mainly) Ubuntu one and Dro
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? LuBob 9/5/12 12:53 AM I am sure it is a priority for the team. A quick look at the calender does provide me with the impression that on a scale of 1 to 10 it must be 0. Sad indeed as I  switch from DropBox the same day you make Drive avalable for Linux.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Klox 9/5/12 6:45 PM +1, I think Google Drive has a lot of potential and I would love to integrate it better in my workflow. I need Linux for that! Keep up the fantastic work.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Stone Peng 9/5/12 6:54 PM +1,  I need Linux for that! Keep up the fantastic work.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? chibi consulting 9/6/12 8:27 AM How is it that both Dropbox and Ubuntu One can have native Linux clients in addition to all of the others they support while Google; with more Linux programmers on staff than both of the other companies combined, is not able to put a basic Linux clie
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sbbg 9/6/12 7:39 PM Where is the native client now? Can't we, at least, have a beta/preview/what-so-ever version or something?Many Linux users have good background to feedback good bug report if there are bugs left. I was exceptionally embarrassed when my friends asking
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? srimalik 9/6/12 8:10 PM You might want to try otixo (http://otixo.com) This can integrate many cloud storage services (drive, dropbox, s3, skydrive etc.). It also provides webdav interface and you will see all your services in a single view. I use a fuse webdav client and see all
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Math. 9/7/12 8:59 AM Well, I'm using grive at the moment, and it works very well.Though I'm sharing the same directory with Windows(multiboot), so when I sync in Windows again, it's also uploading the .grive files. Maybe if I just leave the .grive files synced, or find a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Crynix 9/9/12 1:08 AM I feel like Grive's syncing algorithm isn't very efficient. It seems to take quite a while for it to actually upload new files. I've been using InSync. It's usually great. However, it has a bad habit of leaving .doc files everywhere whenever I make a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Papa_Thiele 9/10/12 7:59 AM Just another Ubuntu user waiting for G Drive to come our way.  I would love to have a drag and drop folder like in Winders.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? thinux 9/10/12 2:52 PM I also have to use Dropbox  and am at the point of giving up on Gdrive. Surely if Dropbox did it then why is gdrive so slow in doing it????
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Egon H. 9/10/12 6:57 PM Google created the Goobuntu!! So, that is the question... If they are using Ubuntu to work, I think that they are not using Google Drive!! Google, tell us a position about it, please! We need to know something... even the launch date is good to know
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 9/10/12 10:34 PM You know, saying its still a "priority" months later seems to me like you guys are giving a nice big middle finger to us. "I told them it was a "priority", "snicker" a low priority hahaha". I'm sure it was a priority for Dropbox and Box.net too, and
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 9/10/12 10:38 PM Exactly, if cross platform support was a true priority how is it possible for the startup Dropbox (among others) to pull it off when it apparently takes the mega-giant Google half a year to do (or more, I predict a release shortly before GDrive's one
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? MrCalvin 9/10/12 11:19 PM Exactly. This is so frustrating. I have a PC, but I use the Linux computers at my university's engineering computer labs. I don't know what priority it is for Google, but Google surely considers it a lot less important than I do.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? kabotage 9/10/12 11:37 PM "Google Drive is made possible by open source software." And they forgot about Linux. What about us? Meanwhile in china....
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ambert Xie 9/11/12 7:36 AM Hey guys, while we are waiting for the official client you might want to take at Insync. It's syncing my Drive files on my google apps account to my laptop running Fedora 17 KDE and it's working like a charm. It's still in beta but I have not had any
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Dylan Lindgren 9/11/12 11:31 PM It's not free. I'm paying $4.99 per month (on the 100gb plan). It might be free for some, but I'm paying money for this service.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? TraceyR+ 9/12/12 2:13 AM It looked like Linux was not a possibility...but I found a work around. After giving up waiting, and figuring out how to do it myself, using this as a guide to getting google drive working under Linux.  This is not an excuse for Google not releasing
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Linuxuseres 9/12/12 8:02 AM sorry for my English. (im spanish)Google im a big a fan of you and your products, and too a great linux lover, Please give us support for your products and a Gdrive client soon, if not, sadly, i will came to dropbox, and i don want it. You same use l
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? onionz 9/12/12 1:13 PM I can't believe how bad of an attitude people have about this, especially since Google is providing you with the best cloud services on the planet for free.  For those like me who purchased upgraded storage, I didn't see anywhere of Google promising
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? stperson 9/12/12 6:09 PM What Google should do for now is at least support ssh or specifically sshfs so that Linux users can mount their Google drive as a network drive.  That would be just as good as any client they could possibly come up with.  All we'd have to do then is
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Arthurdent3 9/13/12 11:30 PM Some people actually pay for the storage space. Your argument is valid for the people using the default free space. I want to purchase more space but if no Linux client shows up soon I will be looking elsewhere to spend my money. The point people are
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 9/14/12 12:17 AM You are absolutely right. you clearly articulated everything, google refuses to support linux on a number of fronts, personally I am paying for the extra space (bought before gdrive), and google not only uses linux within their company but profits fr
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 9/14/12 12:24 AM I, for one, am done. Ubuntu one gets all my money from now on. Screw any company that is going to dick me over for this long. Google, you are a greedy corporation. I have no more trust in you to protect internet users than I do with microsoft or appl
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DerBunteHaufen 9/14/12 1:24 AM würde das auch  toll finden,  gab/gibt ja auch clients für Picasa und  Earth z.b.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? phelyks 9/14/12 2:23 AM why should i use google drive when i cannot use it on linux? dropbox can do it, you cannot.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? nazgul17 9/14/12 9:54 AM +1 ! I would like to replace Dropbox in my operative system (Kubuntu) but I can't since there's no Linux version. Please, let us know your schedule or an approximation of it.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? randiroo76073 9/14/12 10:07 AM I don't think they're even working on a linux client, just like we're nothing but second hand trash...Linux, oh yea, we'll get to it in a year or two...Hah!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? gmhoward 9/15/12 1:43 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? secipolla 9/16/12 5:43 AM Of course Google will release Drive for Linux as they'll be discontinuing Docs (that's how I came here anyway). For me it came in a good time as I'm upgrading my connection from 1Mb to 35Mb. I don't think they're delaying this because of Chromebook.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? L.Percival 9/17/12 11:05 PM Well ... google involuntarily moved me from "docs" to "drive" and now my linux hack no longer works. I guess I'm just going to have to buy some more Dropbox space.  Google.  Seriously?  Either move me back, so I can get some semblance of work done,
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 9/18/12 2:21 AM Let's face it - there is NOT going to be a Linux client for Drive. We have two options: either use grive (which is not quite comfortable yet) or stick with Dropbox. I've chosen the second option. The conclusion for us - Linux users is clear: you are
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? BigCage 9/18/12 11:41 AM ** Begin Rant ** Fuppin Hell Google! Get the fuppin finger out! If you don't want us Linux-y peoples using your product (as is obviously the case with a certain photo manager app - not mentioning any names), just man up, grow a pair, look us straight
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bruce Wagner 9/18/12 10:53 PM I agree.  Google uses Linux extensively internally.  Why in the world would they not offer a Linux version of Google Drive.  Dropbox has offered this for years now.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Timo Reimerdes 9/19/12 10:54 PM I would also emphasise the need for a linux client, not because there are so many native-full-time-linux-users, but because of the hundreds of thousands "sometimes linux users". After all, that's what this online-storage-thing is all about, no? Getti
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ramsv 9/21/12 10:02 PM And when they are supposed to be available a version for Linux? if it is already developing an approximate date would be easy to give.I am a user of Google products and Linux too, I think it's disappointing from part of Google that they created a cli
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dshng 9/24/12 7:53 AM +1 for linux ....Where is it? When is it?If it's really a priority why is there only one reply from Google regarding the status? No one is *actually* reading these group posts is my hypothesis. T +1 647 317 1603F +1 647 317 http://1604DASHING.TV
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? oytuneren sengul 9/24/12 9:43 AM Are you guys still believes Google is real Linux lover? They're just using it internally, which fits just for their benefits, use the name of Linux on Android, just for striving to bring open source developers to their platform and use the clean name
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ine - Support 9/24/12 1:18 PM Hi everyone, Thanks for expressing an interest in Google Drive! Our engineers are currently working hard to provide Linux users with Google Drive. We hope to have it up and running soon! In the meantime you can access your files using Google Drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ibustama 9/24/12 1:36 PM Hey Papa Bear, thanks for pointing out the existence InSync. I'm trying it out right now, seems to work quite well. Hopefully one day Google will release an official client for drive...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? zeeeee 9/25/12 11:38 AM after reading this thread i wasn't planning on replying. it just seems like a lot of the same old same old. that being said, this response from ine is really poor. post after post with complaints about being told only 'soon'. finally a google represe
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 9/25/12 12:31 PM It is in Google’s best interest to get Drive working on their main supported platforms, Windows, Mac and Chrome OS.  Drive is a free service – you are only paying for additional space to use with that service.  Ultimately we are the product as our us
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? freaky2000 9/26/12 12:55 AM Hi Teresa, like many already said, please stop talking trash. When drive came out in *MAY* Google said a linux client would come soon. Unless you're a planet, star or the galaxy itself 4-5 months is nowhere near "soon". And it's not 4-5 months, cause
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ZuNOB 9/26/12 1:39 AM   Well I am doing some development work in a small group.  The whole team was very excited when I suggested Google Drive and had it installed on everyone's computer. I was ready to pay for the extra space, when, oops, the one linux user (myself :) )
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 9/26/12 3:35 AM We have a shop with mixed Mac, Windows, and Linux users.  We have to continue using Dropbox until Drive is supported on all three platforms.  Very much looking forward to giving it a go when the Linux version is ready.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? wslfung 9/26/12 3:31 PM Out of the 115 messages I read thru, 2 were from Google employees telling us absolutely dick.  This is very disappointing and sickening.  Half a year, they can't produce a client?  really?  engineer(s) working on it?? It'd be done by now if at least
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gavin Stilgoe 9/26/12 4:04 PM Good job we have Dropbox   Cmon Google lift your game 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Benny_H 9/29/12 1:24 AM I love Google, and it's services, but come on Google, your products like android and chrome OS, and your Data centres, for goodness sake, are all based on Linux. It can't be that hard to make a Linux Client from G Drive. Please! Otherwise I'll just h
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Simon Rodan 9/29/12 4:28 PM Dear Ina Thank you so much for taking the time to post an update. I'd concur with many of the comments in this forum. I use Dropbox which works seamlessly across the three platforms I use, Linux, Mac and Windows and I'm very happy with it. The moti
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Simon Rodan 9/29/12 4:33 PM Dear Ina My apologies - I forgot another question it would be nice to have an answer to. You wrote: "Our engineers are currently working hard to provide Linux users with Google Drive." Just out of curiosity, "How many engineers"? and "How much of t
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? hnaparst 9/30/12 3:12 AM Google Drive has the most complete feature set, is more reliable, and is faster than Dropbox or Wuala, which I had been using.   It is terrific to hear that Google is planning even to support Linux, which commands less than 1% of the desktop market.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? mormolis 9/30/12 8:21 PM I like how people demand. Ask for your money back!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ian Mackintosh 9/30/12 9:49 PM +1 from me for a Linux client. I'm a paid Dropbox user and would make the switch but I simply don't use Mac or Microsoft at home. I use Linux, mostly Ubuntu of Debian. As for the, 'hey we don;t give timelines' gag. That sucks, Google relies heavily o
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Snyper68 10/1/12 5:03 AM I must disagree to that. Linux has a 1-percent-marketshare in the desktop market by revenue. Given the nature of open source that figure does not represent the installed base at all.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew Ohlmeyer 10/5/12 3:37 PM I just want you guys to know, that paying customers are looking for the Linux version as well.  I'm looking to buy 200GB of online syncable storage that supports both Windows and Linux.I'm trying another service for the next 3 months, and I really re
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? davide.gironi 10/6/12 2:17 AM +1 for linux google drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pavel Solakhyan 10/8/12 4:26 AM Hi everyone!Some people say that Google Drive works with Linux+Chrome, but I have a problem.I have OpenSUSE 11.4 (64 bit) and Chrome 17.0.963.46.I got a link to shared gantter file. Tried to add an extension to Chrome - "There was a problem adding th
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Sven Hartvig 10/8/12 6:40 AM I, too, wonder why Google is so slow in this matter.  Very annoying, just as the policy change that installation of plug-ins must go through Web Store - it is almost as ridicilous as the old Apple policy that all programs had to be validated by Apple
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Sven Hartvig 10/8/12 6:51 AM But hey? Chrome OS? Yet another OS on the "market" It has bee tried numerous times, with at best marginal success. Why on earth not just get Drive to work on Linux, stop all the grand plans about a new OS, and start responding to "customer" questions
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ine - Support 10/8/12 3:19 PM Hi there, Thanks for posting and for expressing an interest in Google Drive.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? chibi consulting 10/8/12 3:38 PM Ine, thanks for recommending Chrome;{yet another !@#$ web interface!} however, we have all been patiently waiting for a Linux client and have heard the hardly working on Linux line for several months now.  Does anyone have a real ETA on when we can f
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? NevynH 10/9/12 10:15 PM I've been eagerly awaiting a client since Google Drive was a twinkle in someone's eye (I tend to find out about these things early). I work on a project supporting a little over 1,400 Linux machines within school environments. I can't express the fru
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Percival Lucena 10/10/12 7:45 AM It is hard to say how many Linux users are out there. But it is quite common on developers and techs in Brazil for many many years.  I know the Google Drive API is open and we have alt clients like grive and insync. But both solutions are not as good
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 10/11/12 3:15 PM I use Dropbox every single day. Because of that, when I write applications that need to store data, I use Dropbox's API to do it. I use Dropbox because it runs on Linux. I don't have a Windows computer, and I certainly don't have a Mac. Sure, Google
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Дмитрий Постоленко 10/12/12 2:01 AM +1Waiting for linux Google Drive app. The cloud service must be crossplatform. Otherwise there is no sense to use it. I have lots of info and pay for storage, but i just need linux support.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? munzerelli 10/15/12 6:09 AM COME ON GOOGLE! PLEASE!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ine - Support 10/16/12 11:32 AM Hi everyone!  We truly appreciate you interest in Google Drive for Linux!  Unfortunately there's nothing new to announce at this time and we don't currently have an ETA.  Keep an eye on the Drive blog to stay updated on news. Cheers,Ine
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Rodrigo Souza 10/17/12 2:18 PM I love Google, but come on, 6 months?I give up, Dropbox is the answer to all my needs. Not sure if i ever will use Google Drive 4 Linux... It's a shame...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Tom Gillwald 10/18/12 6:56 PM I am surprised that Google has not produced a Gdrive that is available for Linux users. There have been companies already that have a online drive available and for all major OS's as well. There have been others that have supported the Linux communit
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 10/19/12 6:27 AM I hope it's worth waiting, I did an upgrade from my account the same day he left google drive to have more space, but when I went to see, was not the client for linux. I've even bought a 100GB Dropbox account and I'm using to make my backups, is an a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Sven Hartvig 10/19/12 9:23 AM In spite of the fact that a lot of Google products are free, it is not very satisfactory to hear that you still do not have an ETA for the product. Hopefully, there will be sufficient comments about this to make the Google-powers that be change their
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Simon Rodan 10/19/12 9:45 AM Dear Ina Thank you again for taking the time to post an update. If you could spare a second, though, I'd appreciate an answer to a couple of questions. When you say:
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? gjoris 10/20/12 1:23 AM People, people, just relax ... Google probably has a timeline set for a Linux client, but just as any other company, it probably all boils down to budget and priority. The most used operating systems are supported now, and you must commend them for w
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bacchus Nysa 10/20/12 8:36 AM I've been lurking on this topic for awhile, but felt I had to chime-in with my two cents. As a (commercial) developer (by day), and Linux enthusiast (by night), I've learned all too well how difficult it is to support the Linux community, so I can't
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bruce Wagner 10/20/12 8:52 AM Bacchus, All I can say is...   Wow! That is the smartest thing I've heard said about Linux in years! Everyone should quote him and repost his commentary all over the web. The Linux user community really NEEDS to hear, and GET, this message.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 10/20/12 9:25 AM Bacchus, I get your message - I can understand why Google do not want to spare their time and effort for Linux, but why do they keep saying they do?! That's simply giving a false hope. I'm going to say it again - let's face it: they are NOT going to
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bacchus Nysa 10/20/12 9:39 AM Artux, my hunch (and it's only a hunch - I have no affiliation with Google) is that there are internal factions still debating the issue. I have no doubt they have no shortage of "people like us," who'd love nothing more than to push-out a Linux clie
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 10/20/12 11:02 AM @Bacchus You're right! We just need to get everyone to switch to <my favorite distro>! Sarcasm aside, I think the best part about the Linux ecosystem is that there are so many choices. On a platform like Windows, there's basically one way the OS work
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Simon Rodan 10/20/12 11:54 AM Dear Gjoris Thank you very much for pointing me to InSync. This does exactly what I need. Thanks again Simon Rodan (OS 10.7.4 and Ubuntu 12.04 with Classic Gnome desktop)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? 王敦 10/23/12 7:46 AM 谷歌快出，再不出你妈爱我！
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Nyan - Support 10/23/12 12:23 PM We'd like to have a native Linux version of the Drive sync client rolled out as soon as possible for our Linux users. It's in the pipeline but we don't have a solid timeline or expectation to provide you with at this time. Thanks for your patience an
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 10/23/12 10:37 PM A very nice way of saying "we don't really care".
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? MGBach 10/24/12 6:35 AM Seriously? Use Wine? Why don't I just switch over to Windows then! I use to love google but this is ridiculous.How longs google Drive been out for now? And there still isn't a Linux version. I might be able to understand if this wasn't coming from on
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 10/24/12 7:20 AM You're damned if you do:   While Google could release a Google Drive app for Linux there will always be someone, somewhere, that has to complain about a missing feature or quirk.  It won't run as smoothly as the Android app or isn't as unobtrusive as
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ramsv 10/24/12 9:18 AM i'm very disappointed with google,  say "use wine", is ridiculous for a so huge company, develop this app should be so easy for them, but they don't care!, google will become just an another microsoft, so, why continue to use their products?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? arqueonautis 10/24/12 9:25 AM This is outrageous, how can seriously a company as Google say "use Wine"? Why don't better tell us to go to hell?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Nkansah Rexford 10/29/12 5:24 PM Its much surprising to me that all this while, Google of all techy companies don't have a simple, common app for use on Ubuntu (Linux in general). Then what is the nexus and chrome and chromebook and whatever whatever about. I read the first post whi
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? jrwyatt 10/29/12 5:38 PM It is pretty clear that the lack of a linux client is a product decision so as to not undercut potential chromebook sales. Pretty shitty google, pretty shitty.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kana1da 10/29/12 6:30 PM Anyone try installing it in wine? I know it's probably a long shot, but might work.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? James Packard Love 11/1/12 1:02 PM How is this going?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? richard herist Jr. 11/2/12 2:55 PM i would leave dropbox, spideraok, and http://box.net if this could happen
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 11/2/12 3:17 PM WINE? You must be joking. 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 11/2/12 5:03 PM Official support for Ubuntu (and derivatives) and Fedora would be fine. Neckbeards on other distros can figure things out themselves. That they don't want to "pick a side" -- this weird argument you're making -- surely has nothing to do with the fact
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kana1da 11/2/12 5:09 PM Wine works pretty well now vs a little while back. You'd be surprized what you can run these days. I just don't think it would work with this type of apps because of how it looks like it hooks into explorer etc...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kana1da 11/2/12 5:12 PM Ah and I didn't notice this, but hey if you use linux and don't know what cron and shell scripts are for then... http://tomdignan.com/projects/gdrive-cli/
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 11/2/12 5:17 PM http://tomdignan.com/projects/gdrive-cli/ Oh, gosh, that's perfectly adequate. Google shouldn't bother then. ;-) 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? nukedeath 11/3/12 3:05 PM Could you tease us with a screenshot?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? LPP1 11/3/12 5:48 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Timo Reimerdes 11/4/12 11:59 PM I doubt that. Since a chromebook would only be usefull if it could sync with "the other devices". It's not like the usual thing to do is to ditch "the real desktops" when getting a chromebook. More compatibility and syncing -> More users who like it
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Tarik Hoshan 11/5/12 8:49 AM G$$gle = Micro$oft
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 11/5/12 1:11 PM Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012 21:23:33 UTC+2 schrieb Nyan - Support:
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Greg Miernicki 11/6/12 5:52 AM Why have you forsaken us Google?!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Timo Reimerdes 11/6/12 10:33 PM Less cool than valve? ;)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Nyan - Support 11/7/12 7:01 AM Probably not. It's more likely due to the sync app's method of indexing files in relation to the file system architecture. There's still bugs and other known issues that need to be fixed in the current releases.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? LonghairDave 11/7/12 11:59 AM Nyan, Thanks for the information. I share the Google Drive folder on my Windows machine. I have a shortcut to that network share on each of the  computers I use on the network. It works great until a Linux solution comes around. Then I'll move to t
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? kentabel 11/8/12 9:43 PM Too late, Google!I've used Google drive for two months and have waited for the Linux version. I got tired of waiting and have switched to Drop Box as of yesterday. So far, it's great - it's quicker and doesn't crash in Thunderbird.Good bye, Google Dr
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Anderxale 11/8/12 10:07 PM Use insync (really the name) syncs a folder in your home folder with google drive.  Resyncs whenever there is a change.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 11/9/12 1:38 AM Meanwhile, i have installed VMware Player in linux and run Windows in a virtual machine. http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Am Mittwoch, 7. November 2012 20:59:24 UTC+1 schrieb LonghairDave:
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Belasz2 11/9/12 7:19 AM Would have been more useful if there was a link to info about what it is and how to use insync.Bela
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? LPP1 11/9/12 3:00 PM For me, Insync has worked fine with Linux Mint 13. You can get it here: https://forums.insynchq.com/discussion/1545/insync-for-linux-beta-10-0-9-25#Item_41 Ans also here you can find how to configure the repositories: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sinekonata 11/10/12 7:11 PM The other comments about how little effort it would be for them to develop this in a week if they wanted to makes much more sense than yours. Google would be 5 years backwards compared to its competitors if it wasn't for the open source community on
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Josh212213 11/10/12 10:50 PM Gets me how Play Music had a linux client soon after release while Drive still doesn't have one.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 11/10/12 11:52 PM Good on you those who recommend insync. Couple to point out though; 1) they will charge money once they are out of beta, nothing bad about that, they deserve it for picking up google's slack, but in an ideal word google would have the base client and
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 11/11/12 2:04 AM Yes, rather odd. Gonna have to blame Larry Page -- seems he has decommissioned the troops that fuss with Linux clients. 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? VitasLoWang 11/12/12 4:52 AM I am sorry but this is just a typical corporate talk of a spokesman (woman in this case) who knows nothing but has to announce something anyway! Why am I not surprised that the question was not answered at all ...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Chris Hoppe 11/12/12 5:12 AM Hi Ine, It's good to hear that Google Drive for Linux is being worked on. For now, I'm managing ok doing manual updates, but I do agree with the other folks on this forum that it would be great to have the Drive available on Linux as well. Take care,
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? mattzerah 11/12/12 5:36 AM I have to admin I am very disappointed with the feedback on this forum. 1) People have the impression that google is 'required' to make this software available for Linux. Basically google is a commercial company and needs to make money. If they could
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 11/12/12 5:50 AM I disagree. We deserve a satisfaction, commercially speaking Linux may represent only a fraction of the Desktop. But Google uses many of the technologies in our community. We're just wanting what is rightfully ours, attention and support technolog
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/12/12 5:58 AM What is rightfully yours?  Google released Drive for the most popular and widely used formats out there.  By doing so, they covered the majority of the market and also limited their support to the bulk of their users.   Face it, when you don't pay fo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Chris Hoppe 11/12/12 7:56 AM If Google had plans not to release it's products in the Linux space, we shouldn't have seen Google Earth for Linux, but we have. I think we will eventually see the Drive client as well. It's just that they don't want to give an ETA in public and then
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 11/12/12 8:58 AM Their arguments are repetitive, are not useful, they are all advocating the idea because Linux is only 0.1% of Google users, it is sad to see that. Linux is not interesting to distribute a product, but when to use it as the basis for the Android or
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Cajhne 11/12/12 1:47 PM I'm presently paying for Google Drive space. It's the Google Apologists that get to me here. This is a thread about Google Drive for Linux, which was promised to be coming soon almost a year ago now as "top priority". That's something to be upset abo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 11/12/12 1:56 PM Cajhne, I'm also paying for services Google Drive. I'm also frustrated by the lack of consideration of Google, some are saying it gives to use Wine, the Insync etc. I find this ridiculous, since we are also users. Hello Google? How long must I wai
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/12/12 2:38 PM Just stop.  You are paying for storage space on Google Drive.  You are not paying for space on Google Drive to use it with "x" operating system.  If your argument was that you couldn't access the files you loaded onto the service - your content - and
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 11/12/12 2:52 PM First, I am not justifying the reason for wanting a client because I paid! I am commenting because users are saying that Linux is not commercially interesting, how? I paid and I know several other users also pay. I'm not justifying payment for the
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/12/12 3:00 PM If I have a bit of intelligence?  You lost my respect when you had to lob an insult like that, which suggests people that do not share your opinion lack any kind of intelligence.   The point of paying for storage space on Google Drive was brought up.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Klox 11/12/12 3:17 PM Go away. You aren't the one to tell people how they need to access their data. You aren't the one to tell people what they did or didn't expect when they paid for the product. You aren't the one to tell people they should get a Chromebook (wtf?). You
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 11/12/12 3:56 PM (to nobody in particular) Paying for a product and complaining about its quality is sending mixed messages. Money speaks louder than words. If lots of people are paying for Google Drive, Google will assume it's a decent product. For me personally, a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/12/12 6:38 PM Firstly, you are putting words into my mouth and pulling context from what I said that was never there to begin with.  You are basically taking my stated opinion, shitting on it, and then trying to force feed it down my throat in a holier than thou a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? polemon wurst 11/13/12 3:00 AM To be honest, I gave up waiting for the Google Drive daemon for Linux, or a FUSE driver. It can't be that hard to do, but it's quite obvious that Google simpy doesn't care. Other things that are missing, but would make sense, is support for ODT files
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 11/13/12 3:38 AM polemon wurst, Finally a helpful comment :) You are right!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? VitasLoWang 11/13/12 4:32 AM OMG it is not about demanding something because we pay for it. We are simply amazed can google make fools out of everybody by saying that something is a top priority even when it clearly is not! If they said from the beginning that linux google drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/13/12 6:13 AM How do you know what is, and isn't, a priority for Google at this point?  A year later there isn't an official client on Linux.  What does that tell you? - Perhaps the percentage of users requesting an official Linux client is not nearly as high as
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/13/12 7:25 AM willesj, stop trolling and face the facts for God's sake: - a looong time ago Google announced the Linux client was coming soon (I know, you will provide a particular definition of "soon")- after this looong time they say they don't even have a timel
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/13/12 8:21 AM This is what happens you expect an intelligent discussion.  You try to come up with possible reasons why the client hasn't been released and people in turn decide that they would much rather make light of you and your opinion than other any real cred
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? R. Gary Valiant 11/13/12 8:30 AM Google does what they think will make them the most money, just like every other publicly traded business. No public business "cares" about its customers, except as sources of profit (like cattle) - mostly short term profit. Google isn't less evil be
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/13/12 8:34 AM And we have finally approached the biggest question: what is this forum for anyway? Shall we ask Google how we can pay more money to them?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 11/14/12 7:29 AM https://www.google.com/search?q="download+google+drive+for+linux"
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ibustama 11/14/12 8:04 AM
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ibustama 11/14/12 8:05 AM I'm head of IT in my company. We decided to use google drive (paid version) because we need to constantly share documents and folders, in a selective manner, with people using different OS's (win, mac, linux). Since google had promised a client for l
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/14/12 8:57 AM Your situation isn't typical though.  Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, SAP - all of the software that could possibly be out there and for use in a business environment is written for one, but likely two major operating systems.  Windows has
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/14/12 9:04 AM If that is the case, I feel sorry for ibustama - his company has paid quite a lot of money for Google's experiment.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lucas Klassmann 11/14/12 9:12 AM willesj because you lose so much time defending Google? You are one of them suck balls? Do you work? Or is this group all day just waiting for someone to comment on what do you have? Oh sh1t! Stop wanting to find excuses if you do not work in googl
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? eestrada 11/14/12 9:32 AM willesj, I understand and agree with what you are talking about from a business standpoint. Linux isn't a huge part of the OS market share and Drive is relatively immature at this stage. Still, that doesn't make it ok to for Google reps to say things
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/14/12 2:47 PM What I find most disturbing is that someone gets so upset with me that they resort to homophobic comments rather than genuine discussion.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/15/12 7:01 AM Totally immature and offensive.  I've reported him for abuse and I think the message has been deleted.  Name calling is not welcome and adds nothing to the discussion.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/15/12 7:36 AM Ine: Thanks for giving us an update.  I am still using Dropbox and my company would like to use Drive but we cannot until you provide Linux support.  We would pay for extra space like we are currently doing on Dropbox. To the many of the responders t
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ohforfs 11/15/12 7:46 AM They need to update their forum software too - Google forums are a horrible experience. I vote they do that after they pay dropbox a few quid to licence some source code.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/15/12 7:46 AM tchafee, one question: if you own a business, how often do you promise and not deliver? Woud you be surprised if your customers called you 'not fair' in that situation?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 11/15/12 8:23 AM tchaffee - Thank you for bringing a little level-headedness to this discussion. I agree that a number of people in this discussion have been quite disrespectful, both to each other and to Google. I agree wholeheartedly with everything you're saying e
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/15/12 9:11 AM artux, how often do I 'promise' and not deliver?  Well I sometimes 'leak' news about potential product offerings to feel out the market, even with a coming soon 'promise'.  In the end, you no pay, you no get say.  The market changes quickly, and I ch
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/15/12 9:18 AM Now I understand why I will probably never be a businessman. If I were (and the Linux users were not the 'desirable customers'), I would never produce fairy tales of a Linux client 'coming soon'. I would just say "Sorry Linux users, you will have to
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/15/12 9:26 AM danH1420, I do get that people have been disappointed and that's not ideal.  I never make any plans based on a promise from a business, or even an official ETA from a company.  The term 'vaporware' has been around since 1982, so the practice of annou
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/15/12 9:31 AM If the Windows client was missing, I can assure you, Windows users would not be a joy to deal with. I don't think anyone at Google should be surprised with our reaction.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/15/12 9:32 AM Drive for Linux is Google's Duke Nukem Forever.   @tchaffee I agree with the points you have made.  Even if your comment about inventing motives for Google wasn't directly squarely at me I would at least like to think I wasn't and merely trying to dr
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? willesj 11/15/12 9:41 AM Be rational here though.  Which desktop operating systems are most used?  Windows and Mac don't just get spit out for the heck of it in a conversation.  The installed user base for each OS is rather large and in essence you get just about everyone yo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/15/12 10:39 AM Exactly!  Complaints shouldn't be a surprise to Google.  So do they put resources on the 1,250,000,000 windows users complaining about a bug in the existing product or on the 1,000 linux users complaining that they don't have a product? Since so far
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/15/12 11:05 AM OK, Google, you're great, keep it up, don't bother with a Linux client, we will worship you anyway.Is that awesome enough? But seriously, do you think that Google will change their priorities for the 1,000 Linux users if they turn out to be awesome?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Mario Lopez 11/15/12 11:30 AM I am still interested in a Google Drive client for Linux, that would be quite dandy. While I can use the web client to a certain extent, syncing between all my computers using a program would be the most ideal. Also, LAN sync would be great as well,
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/15/12 1:06 PM artux, a real person reads this thread, not Google. I remember when I was trying to fly out of a mostly closed airport (bad weather) to a friend's wedding.  Everyone was standing in a very long line and shouting at the staff.  Only a very few people
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kana1da 11/15/12 1:15 PM Oh god, how the hell do you unsubscribe from this group? I keep clicking unsubscribe and it's not letting me, it sends me a bounce back message telling me i'm not part of the list so it's not going to do anything. I have to get an email that lets me
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 11/15/12 1:17 PM To quote the email you get: To unsubscribe from this group, send email to drive+un...@googleproductforums.com.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kana1da 11/15/12 1:20 PM Thanks, but that's exactly my problem.. it's not working. That was the first thing I tried... My setting are also set to No Email. It just keeps bombarding me anyways
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/15/12 11:21 PM tchafee, I would do exactly the same, provided I new the delay was due to bad weather and the staff do their best. That is simply not the case here. We are told the weather is fine and the flight will commence soon... A huge smile doesn't work here.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 11/16/12 1:21 AM Tcafhe, Your missing the point, generally, for two reasons; 1) google is neither a small company nor a individual, 2) this is a highly anticated product (typing on phone, wont let me get to this point) First, you make analogies to your situation, a r
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/16/12 2:08 AM We simply don't have the 'losing profit' angle with Linux being such a small segment.  It really seems like you guys just want to moan and nothing is going to stop you.  I've always gotten better results by being pleasant, even when it's a big corp.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/16/12 2:31 AM tchaffee, do you really expect us to be happy that Google do not fulfill their promises? Come on.  I tend to agree with CrazzzyBudha, if you don't make a noise, you will get nothing. I don't know if our 'moaning' will bring any results, but I am pret
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/16/12 2:42 AM You're right.  Keep moaning.  Google drive must be right around the corner for Linux thanks to all the negativity.  My apologies for trying rally around the idea that the Linux community could somehow be perceived as the 'grown up' and polite communi
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sheehanje 11/16/12 6:50 AM Are you new to the internet? You've just made a blanket statement about Linux users, now inferring to most of the as not grown up.  Every community has it's extremes -  from windows, to mac, to linux.  I suggest grin and bearing it. Fact is, Google h
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tchaffee 11/16/12 8:03 AM sheehanje, I've been using the internet since before there were web pages... When did I ever say no one has the right to be upset?  I'm upset about Drive not being available yet myself.  I just behave like a nice and polite adult about it because I'v
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Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 11/16/12 2:56 PM Argh. I'm also unable to unsub. And this conversation has become remarkably silly and pointless (bottom line, they said they were going to deliver a Linux client; if they can't be arsed, fine -- just come out and say it. Wuala and Dropbox have delive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Rob O'Connell 11/17/12 1:22 PM I think the users are more frustrated since a client has been promised for many months. But in general I agree with you, whining isn't going to make Google more excited about supporting us. If anyone from Google is reading, I'd like to make two point
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Martin Benson 11/20/12 1:24 AM Not going to happen, is it?   I'm another who is using Dropbox very happily - even if Google Drive finally get their act in gear, I see no reason to change now.   Interesting that Google Music had a Linux Client quickly - here in the UK from the very
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? syshex 11/20/12 3:33 AM Still waiting for this.Gave it 6 months wait.Our team has decided to stay with dropbox, will revise decision next year again.Best of luck for google drive,Rui 
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Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? kerjava 11/22/12 10:26 PM thank you you are awesome and yah goofle (not a type-o) really needs to do something stop with the false promise and own up or pay out
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 11/22/12 10:55 PM +1 Am Freitag, 23. November 2012 07:26:34 UTC+1 schrieb kerjava:
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dueyfinster 11/25/12 4:52 AM come on Google, do the right thing )
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christian W. 11/25/12 5:08 AM Still no Google Drive for Linux? Wow. Seems that Google, after all, starts to get "corporated".  The suits rule here. Welcome in the world of MicroApple where customers are prey. You Googlers are standing on the shoulders of the Open Source Community
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jordan Bottoms 11/25/12 4:10 PM You are such a liar. Before telling us that one is in the "works" make sure that there are no holes in your story. The fact is, is that Google is not working on a Google Drive for Linux. Since their accusation of Android and release of the Chrome Boo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 11/26/12 2:29 AM Whether there is a GDrive for Linux in the works or not, the fact remains that the vast majority of desktops run on Window and AppleOS, so Linux would be low priority.  I suggest that Google has many more issues to fix for those users before than ope
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/26/12 2:45 AM All this means that they are simply not able to do it. Dropbox can, Google cannot. Either it's too difficult for them or they couldn't care less. In either case, why don't they say it loud and clear and stop beating around the bush?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 11/26/12 2:51 AM Don't disagree with that sentiment... Don't forget GDrive has a really important office apps component, which Dropbox does not.  It may not be a trivial job to make it run on Linux.  But Google could state clearly what its Linux plans are, if they ha
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 11/26/12 6:58 AM @Nyan The Google Drive client is based on open source - maybe Google can aks the open source commuinty for help to solve the problems? Am Mittwoch, 7. November 2012 16:01:08 UTC+1 schrieb Nyan - Support:Probably not. It's more likely due to the sy
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Zdenek Behan 11/26/12 8:23 AM Except it's not based on Ubuntu. Prerequisite to Ubuntu is because most of the docs assume you've got Ubuntu running as a host system for using the SDK. But you're usually fine off with other distros, just may have to do a little tuning here and ther
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? HackerFinn 11/26/12 9:03 AM Just thought I would mention Ubuntu One. If you use Ubuntu, that is. :)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 11/26/12 10:29 AM I feel so bad for Google! They just don't have anywhere near the resources of Dropbox, Syncplicity, Cubby, Huddle, Egnyte, or Sharefile, among others. How could Google possibly compete with these industry giants?! Google couldn't possibly pull off wh
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 11/26/12 12:35 PM CrazzzyBudha, I guess that means you are not bothered about Google Docs?  Just curious.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 11/26/12 8:55 PM @das1951 I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean a lack of gdocs support on linux which may happen with a linux drive client: 1) a client with a missing feature is better than a missing client, and 2) gdocs works with ms office just fine. Not sure ho
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 11/26/12 11:06 PM You just seemed to have concentrated on the sync'ing aspects.  Other than that I did agree with another poster that it would help if Google stated its Linux policy more clesrly, if it hasn't already.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 11/26/12 11:21 PM I'm just curious what you meant by my feelings about google docs. I supposed you meant that gdocs might not sync. At any rate, to reiterate, google can seemingly easily port gdrive to linux, smaller companies have. Linux isn't a huge market, but that
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 11/27/12 10:23 AM I have been watching this topic for months, most of the things I would have said have already been said, generally more stridently, more rudely and less productively, but everyone knows people who use Linux generally cant socialise.... This is,howeve
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 11/27/12 10:25 AM You'll be waiting forever, I'm afraid...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? My.D0j0 11/27/12 10:41 AM Take a look at "Super Flexible File Synchronizer".  I use it with Ubuntu and it works fabulously, with many options for controlling file versions, different profiles, and schedules.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 11/27/12 11:11 AM I already have a working solution (Jungledisk and S3) - I just looked up  Super Flexible File Synch (Syncovery) - to use google drive as storage it requires a premier licence costing USD 50 per year. Since I want to switch away from Jungledisk (USD 1
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? My.D0j0 11/27/12 11:22 AM "Super Flexible File Synch" is not the program I offered."Super Flexible File Synchronizer" is the program I offered and is free.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gavin Stilgoe 11/27/12 11:23 AM Just Use Drop Box        Google is not worth the hassle , Dropbox, Mozilla and duckduckgo 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 11/27/12 11:25 AM I was abbreviating. "Super Flexible File Synchronizer" - now known as synchovery - supports google drive but users of the free licence may only upload office files of the sorts that convert to online google documents. backing up files to google drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? My.D0j0 11/27/12 11:29 AM My mistake.  It is the same...hunh...anyway, it does not appear that the program costs anything....for Linux users.  I was able to download mine from the Ubuntu software repositories and it was free.  Even on their web site, the linux version does no
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? My.D0j0 11/27/12 11:44 AM CDE-UK Check out the png screen shot of my g drive.  The files were uploaded this morning using the previously mentioned tool.  The excel file still has its xls extenstion, the word file still has its doc extension and the open office document templ
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 11/28/12 10:13 AM interesting.. can you back up non-office files?  mp3s, jpgs, zips with it? thanks
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? AlexSlater 12/1/12 4:55 PM Almost 6 months on... any news?   Has this been abandoned?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sbbg 12/1/12 8:16 PM Such a pity that Google cannot challenge Epic game for lying to release a Linux client. Epic game promised to release UT3 client for Linux without fulfilling it for more than 3 years. So Google has better to cancel the stupid idea to challenge a vapo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 12/1/12 9:17 PM Self reflection, google bashing free post: You know google should just come clean, whatever their plans are, even if there are no plans. leading us on will just bread resentment, and, honestly, thats probably why I'm still here. I resent them ignorin
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Steve Kunzer 12/2/12 9:00 AM It's December 2013 now and still no sign of a Linux client for Drive. Clearly Google has other priorities. Teresa, do you have any further updates 5 months on, or has it simply been forgotten?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? freaky2000 12/3/12 7:00 AM Google drive is a priority to us. Uh huh, I noticed... FU Google, FU.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gabriel Zellmer 12/3/12 1:17 PM I am right on the line of switching back to Dropbox solely because of the lack of a Linux client. Don't get me wrong, I really like Google Drive and am trying to be patient here but this is just taking too long! I realize you there needs to be testin
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 12/4/12 2:33 PM Hi Teresa, We are building a software solution for one of our clients, it would still takes us a few months before we go into production. In a totally unofficial manner, would you be able to give us an ETA on the google drive app for linux? Just rou
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? stinky-tofu 12/4/12 5:46 PM I'm abandoning google drive for dropbox due to the lack of a linux client. Don't think I'll be back. Why bother?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jitterbug Phone Hacker (JPH) 12/4/12 9:53 PM Google wants Linux users to move to ChromeOS.  If they never created anything for Linux users in the past, why would they start now?  If they ever create Drive for Linux, they aren't going to support it or update it.   The same way they say Android i
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 12/4/12 10:36 PM Stinky-tofu, you might miss the quite nice standalone office suite called GDocs...Is there an alternative for you?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 12/4/12 11:55 PM  The Google Music Manager icon is sitting my system tray. Google Earth (version 6.2.2.6613) is up in another desktop, and I'm reading this in Chrome. 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? My.D0j0 12/5/12 4:06 AM I use 7z extensions for compressed items and they are on drive, as well as mp3's, rtf, html, pdf, jpg, png and ico files.  The graphic files are viewable in drive preview.  The rtf and mp3 file types do not have a preview, however, drive does recogni
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? bbertrim 12/5/12 4:12 AM I want to start off by saying that there is no reason that a company that has been practising software development on the enterprise level is not able to give a general idea or timeline for the release of a product or feature they have in the works.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 12/5/12 5:02 AM You can't truly properly back up anything to Google Drive but you can certainly store many file formats, as also indicated by My.D0j.  For example, I uploaded a largeish (28 MB) Lotus Organizer file.  It cannot be previewed online but downloaded into
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rashdanml 12/5/12 10:18 AM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 12/5/12 10:29 AM Rashdan Mohamed: "Wouldn't use it as a long-term solution." What and why?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? bbertrim 12/5/12 10:50 AM I believe he was referring to Bitcasa. Its free in Beta right now but when it does go live it will be 7 dollars a month. But 7 dollars a month ($84/yr) for unlimited storage vs Dropboxe's 100GB for $99/yr or Google Drive's 100GB for $59.88/yr to me m
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 12/5/12 10:56 AM I had guessed Bitcasa, too, but it wasn't. Rashdan Mohamed sent me note advising he accidentally replied in the wrong thread...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rashdanml 12/5/12 10:56 AM Removed the original post, my apologies.  It was in response to using InSync as an unofficial client to sync with Google Drive. It's still in beta, and is supposed to be a paid tool once it launches. Hopefully Google comes out with its own Drive clie
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ZuNOB 12/7/12 4:00 PM Just to make sure that this topic does not die, slashdot.had a post that mentioned the fact that "Guido van Rossum, the proclaimed Python Benevolent Dictator For Life, has left Google to work for Dropbox. It looks like even the most excellent staff
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Patrick from the Netherlands 12/12/12 9:05 AM My expectations in Google were much higher...... I like Google services, and I use almost every Google service: Google search, Apps, Mail, Calendar, Drive, Music, Maps, Google+, Groups, Contacts, Chrome, Android = Play Store, Play Store Developer Con
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 12/12/12 9:27 AM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 12/12/12 9:28 AM Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? nielsek 12/12/12 12:51 PM Hang tight -  To be left waiting (hanging), sitting at a standstill while you await the return of someone. 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? nukedeath 12/12/12 1:58 PM We have been hanging since April.That is a long time to hang.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 12/12/12 2:02 PM Dear Google, This is us: Sincerely, The Linux Community
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? .Jazz 12/12/12 2:12 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? .Jazz 12/12/12 2:13 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? .Jazz 12/12/12 2:15 PM Are you people sure you all use Linux?  You seem kinda dumb and incapable of basic internet searches. Some time ago I mentioned that there is already a viable sync app for linux called Insync. Visit: http://www.insynchq.com Works great.  Been using it fo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ibustama 12/12/12 2:19 PM Sorry, but Insync is not viable when you only want to keep what you have in "my drive" synced, and not EVERYTHING that everyone has shared with you (somewhere about 200GB in my company's case)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 12/12/12 2:41 PM http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/30492630.jpg
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jake Lee 12/13/12 1:17 AM I wonder what's the technical problem...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ZuNOB 12/13/12 1:42 AM Incompetence?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Maciej Miklas 12/13/12 11:20 PM still nothing? some status update would be nice....
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 12/13/12 11:24 PM I wouldn't count on it. Apparently Google have adopted a "don't be nice" motto ;-)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? GIANT_CRAB 12/15/12 6:15 AM Damn, you're so rude and mean. There are A LOT of people using Unix based system (currently Mac is supported), especially Linux distro users as well.Roughly 15% of the OS market are Linux distro users. Plus, that program isn't viable and has no suppo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 12/15/12 7:47 AM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 12/15/12 7:48 AM Hey Google,  Good start with Goo, so be good, Good Google
When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jitterbug Phone Hacker (JPH) 12/18/12 7:13 AM I'm mostly just bitter at Google's disregard of Linux.  I'd probably never trade my information for the convenience of cloud storage.  Having Chrome installed is scary enough (Chromium on my linux box).  If you install any Google apps to your browser
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 12/18/12 12:41 PM You ever signed up for a Google + account? you'll notice Google dont conveniently autofill all your interests, personal addresses and data, work and social history..If you exist on the web, they know this stuff about you. If you're that paranoid abou
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Yousef Alemiem 12/19/12 4:58 PM shut up you ignorant fool
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Adrian DeBarros 12/19/12 9:01 PM If Google was smart they would take advantage of this weird transition we are in, thanks to Microsoft un-innovating themsels(Windows 8).  I am going to try a mini android pc with dual core rockchip3066 1.6ghz and quad core mali400 for my HTPC.  Time
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 12/19/12 9:14 PM You make a good point, one that valve (or is it steam? I get the product and the company mixed up) took to heart. More broadly I think linux will gain a lot of traction because of windows 8 (think of the outcry from people who just want to get their
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Adrian DeBarros 12/19/12 9:54 PM I love your perspective on the matter!  I totally agree!  Take a look at an article I wrote on Arm and Cloud computing and how it will take off in the next two years...  The years of ARM... http://www.tunnelyou.com/2012/11/bloggin-on-whim-2013-2014-y
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? NunoFerreira 12/20/12 9:17 AM Gdrive for Linux would be helpful...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 12/20/12 9:48 AM Got anything intelligent to add to our discussion?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? NunoFerreira 12/20/12 11:44 AM No.I didn't post a reply to this discussion.I did it on another one, but it got posted here because the discussion was marked as a duplicate.It's not my fault.My post should have been accepted to the other discussion (where I actually posted), or it
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 12/20/12 11:48 AM and i was replying directly to someone called Yousef who just called me something rather rude. I think this forum isnt handling threaded responses very sensibly: sorry if that looked like I was being rude to you !
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 12/20/12 10:13 PM Today cannical, makers of ubuntu, just released ubuntu one (a dropbox/ gdrive style client) for mac, officially out of beta. Cannical seems to have done the impossible, they made a cross platform client available to all platforms. And they've put ubu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? lwb 12/21/12 2:09 AM I want to say that Google just flat-out lied, but maybe it is nicer and more fair to say they spoke prematurely, then realized they have absolutely no vested interest in bringing out Drive for Linux. Oops.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? lwb 12/21/12 2:13 AM You will never see a Drive client for Linux because it is not in Google's best interest. I think they figured that out shortly after they made their premature and unfortunate promise to hook up Drive with Linux. Really, it would serve Google best if
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 12/21/12 4:02 AM Come on glue-gel....
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? bbertrim 12/21/12 9:18 AM I would disagree with Google not having a business case for supporting Linux. This thread alone has 325 posts by 168 authors currently, and this is going to be a small fraction of users who would be interested. The average user would just say, "oh, g
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? johnwchadwick 12/23/12 10:32 AM So, here's what has happened so far: April 25th: "Hang tight." July 17th: "Google Drive for Linux is still in the works." September 24th: "Our engineers are currently working hard to provide Linux users with Google Drive" October 2nd: "Google Drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 12/23/12 10:37 AM I was naive enough to use the paid service. Not anymore. I've switched to Dropbox. Bye, bye, Google, have a Merry Christmas.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? eclipseagent 12/23/12 5:18 PM I too continue to hold on. I've even kept from "claiming" my 100GB from my Chromebook, because uploading all my files via the web on my linux system, is too much of a hassle.  I'm giving it a bit more time, but if at the end of January there's no Lin
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 12/23/12 5:44 PM So, OMGUbuntu has a blog post writing up the best apps of the year, it included Insync and while talking about Insync said the following "But don’t fear: a free Google Drive for Linux app is being made by Google, and I’m told it should make its way o
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? eclipseagent 12/23/12 9:50 PM From how we've been treated, I'd suspect the typo is 2113 not 2013.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? vve1505 12/24/12 9:01 AM Just adding my input - need a linux client badly. In particular, Ubuntu. Thx.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Adrian DeBarros 12/24/12 9:59 AM Mark my words! IF Google releases a GoogleDrive Linux client within Q1 2013.  I will then create a startup company based off of Linux, GoogleDrive, computer recycling, and education... #ComputingRetake ;)  
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? LexxTheFox 12/25/12 2:48 AM I'm growing tired. It's been too long already.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? westport networks 12/25/12 7:35 AM some of the win 7 machines with home edition on them are starting to be retired.   this means that the update to mint or buntu 12 can be installed on them and used, some are i3, many are also i5.   upgrading a 2 core with just an ssd is just as fast
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Richard Howlett 12/26/12 2:59 PM Larry Page is in a position where he should be ready to take the market, now that Steve Jobs is gone (Apple is doomed with the likely transition to MBA's running the company).  I think Page needs to do a little house cleaning and start focusing on a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? anavarrog 12/27/12 6:10 AM This situation is ridiculous, users demanding support to a company, and this company ignoring them for months with no response at all ("we're working on it" is not a response, is a joke when you're talking to grown people). It's crazy, and after goog
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 12/27/12 5:57 PM Yep, totally unsat. Porting to Linux shouldn't be difficult at all ...  Me, I'm moving off of GDrive and going with Dropbox
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gabriel Zellmer 12/27/12 7:56 PM What's really sad for me, is that I left Dropbox when Google Drive first came out. Thinking that with as much as Google does with Linux, it would take no time at all to release at least a beta client. Now after watching this thread for the last few m
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 12/27/12 8:29 PM I hear you, so far I'm liking Dropbox allot and if/when Google chooses to support Linux I won't be coming back, why should I?  Dropbox is doing a great job and they're not arrogant ya know
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Krazystof 12/27/12 11:49 PM Well I was moving all my data/photos/documents to Google drive and just discovered that I cannot sync my data on my debian headless NAS because there is no Google drive Linux client. I was going to purchase 100GB storage but will now move to dropbox.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Chris Pollard 12/28/12 3:19 AM Why no linux client?   Don't make me switch to dropbox.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Duck Berg 12/28/12 5:58 AM Now we're soon in 2013. Is there any ETA at all for Google drive app to linux ?   // Kristian
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? VikOlliver 12/28/12 6:41 PM Teresa - Docs & Drive Community Manager Post reply Jul 18 Hi everyone - Google Drive for Linux is still in the works. Thanks for following up with us! July the 18th 2012 that was dated. Soon New Year. Chrome OS is Linux-based and has Google
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Yong-Siang Shih 12/28/12 10:27 PM Insync works pretty well, but it still has some syncing problems... I'm still looking forward to the official client.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? charding 12/29/12 4:13 AM Is it just me or does the post from Thersea at Google make no sense...?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 1/1/13 5:46 AM Teresa is only the postwomen. Am Samstag, 29. Dezember 2012 13:13:01 UTC+1 schrieb charding:
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Johnathan Phan 1/2/13 3:55 AM 2013 and still no linux client. Johns un happy face. :(
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bagavond 1/2/13 4:43 AM Stick to Dropbox, people. Support the people who actually support FOSS users.   If you still need to use Google Docs and one of your devices run Windows or Mac OS, place your GDrive folder inside your Dropbox folder, then that computer will sync the
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jordan Turner 1/2/13 6:37 PM http://www.bitcasa.com is another alternative and it has unlimited data for $10 a month. If a small company can get Linux support up I don't know why Google can't. It does not matter anymore, I will take my money where a company really gives an effor
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 1/3/13 1:00 AM Great! They have 10GB for free or unlimited space for 10$/month. And they have Linux! :-) Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 03:37:42 UTC+1 schrieb Jordan Turner:
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Anderxale 1/3/13 8:13 AM Awesome yes!  Too bad so far it's only for 64 bit.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 1/3/13 10:06 AM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 1/3/13 10:08 AM There is a website that's running a petition to get Google Drive on Linux. It probably won't do much good but it's worth a try. The more signatures the better. drive 4 linux dot com - or google "drive4linux"
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 1/3/13 10:32 AM Kev, I think you are the instigator of the petition.  You might wnat to make the link to your profile more obvious, so that the petition site looks less anonymous (who is the "I/we" on the website?...).  It is a worthy cause, after all.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 1/3/13 10:43 AM Good point. I added an introduction on the "about the petition" page. Thanks for pointing that out as it could look like spam the way I've written. I did throw it together quite quickly. I'll spend some time tidying it up over the next few days.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ZuNOB 1/3/13 11:40 AM Well, I have now been trying Bitcasa, although I am a Dropbox user too.  I probably would not even have been looking for an alternative had Google drive been working on Linux. Be that as it may, for me  Bitcasa is working fine. I can't see myself swi
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 1/3/13 3:52 PM Bitcasa is a recent start-up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcasa Let's hope it survives against the likes of GDrive, Dropbox and Skydrive. I suppose it depends on what you need it for.  If you want a standalone online office suite you need GDocs. I
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Krazystof 1/3/13 6:56 PM Well I have signed up to dropbox and started syncing my linux NAS data to there.  Reason I picked it over bitcasa is because of the two factor authentication. Im not after unlimited data (although it is tempting!) Im just after secure simple syncing
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jrodzpr 1/3/13 7:13 PM Still no Gdrive for Linux this is sad!!! I guess Ubuntu one will do....
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Simeee 1/7/13 2:49 AM I want it so hard I can tasted it! :D
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 1/7/13 3:20 AM You can't be serious Google, It takes you a year to make the application?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ruwan Jayaweera 1/7/13 3:41 AM Shame on you Google!! You take advantage of all the FOSS, but doent care about the FOSS community? (Been waiting for this for 1 year now)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Dim Lask 1/7/13 2:40 PM If Google was a serious company, it would have developers to make a simple application of Google Drive for linux.... I am Ubuntu user and I can't use my google storage..SHAME
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Dim Lask 1/7/13 2:40 PM If Google was a serious company, it would have developers to make a simple application of Google Drive for linux.... I am Ubuntu user and I can't use my google storage..SHAME
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? vrcca 1/8/13 3:27 AM zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gyula Gubacsi 1/9/13 3:08 AM So where is it now? It can't take this long to port a single application to Linux, especially that you already have some implementations for similar platforms. I really don't understand why do you need to make this Linux-excluded project yet again...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? cpjones44 1/9/13 4:13 AM Well, if you think it's so easy, here's the SDK documentation. https://developers.google.com/drive/ Off you go. Make one yourself.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Simeee 1/9/13 4:18 AM Awsome!!! I'm on it!  Would be easier if I could get the code they made until now...  Do You guys know who could I contact for that code (if it's open source ofc)?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gyula Gubacsi 1/9/13 4:22 AM First of all, this about an official Google Drive client. There is software out there that enable to use Google Drive, but this thread is about the Google's own client. Second, I am probably capable of make one for my self, however many aren't. Hence
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gyula Gubacsi 1/9/13 4:25 AM Check this one. https://github.com/Grive/grive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 1/9/13 4:53 AM Gyula, re " will never look back.", "Never" is a long time, and you may one day want to use the continually-improving online office suite...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Toshiro Viera Stalker 1/9/13 1:06 PM We're on 2013 and still no Google Drive for Linux! Shame on you Google! You base your infrastructure in Linux (probably saving billions of dollars) and don't even care to give at least the same treatment you gave to other OS ... Really bad attitude!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Gabriel Zellmer 1/10/13 12:04 PM Earlier in this thread I mentioned that Google most have their reasons for not releasing a Linux Google Drive client but today as I was watching the Ubuntu Mobile video. I realized it might have something to do with Ubuntu releasing a mobile version
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 1/10/13 12:08 PM I disagree, there are hundreds of other distro's out there, not just Ubuntu. We're asking for a Linux client, not an Ubuntu client. It doesn't mate practical sense for Google to do this as many users do not use Ubuntu, but instead opt for other distr
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rashdanml 1/10/13 12:10 PM Gabriel: While that makes sense to some extent, it's a little too late for Google to be thinking that way. The whole premise of open-source (by entering Android into the mobile market) was to allow literally anyone to take the Android source and modi
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jay Kramer 1/12/13 7:16 AM I agree with Gabriel.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bas Braams 1/13/13 11:00 AM I like to record here that on 2013-01-12 or -13 this conversation passed the 40000 views mark; I believe that it is the most viewed conversation on the Docs and Drive product forums. The top 3 that I have located are these conversations: (2012-07-12)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 1/13/13 11:24 AM What fun....
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ZuNOB 1/13/13 11:50 AM I got involved in this thread in late September last year. Since then I have shifted to using Bitcasa and I am absolutely delighted with this decision.  It offer so much more flexibility.  I don't need a special folder. I can nominate any existing f
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew Kercher 1/14/13 12:05 AM http://drive4linux.com/ When people are making a petition for something, you know you're taking too long. XD
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 1/14/13 1:40 AM Exactly! I've tired emailing all sorts of Google staff with this petition but I keep getting ignored. I think I will be on the phone next...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Xin Zheng 1/14/13 12:51 PM Google is not young any more! 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Amir Ostad 1/14/13 8:55 PM seriously its getting on my nerves google DO it FAST
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Wilson Soethe Cursino 1/15/13 1:26 PM So...is there a client yet? or you gave up already.... 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? anavarrog 1/15/13 3:05 PM I agree with ZuNOB, I've been developing software for 17 years and from my point of view, this situation is clearly beyond the difficulties of software developing and looks like something bigger, something related to bussines decissions.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? A. J. R. Legits 1/17/13 5:28 PM After reading this post, I decided to try a different service. I use both Google Drive and Ubuntu One, but I have various issues with both. I found this spreadsheet on Wikipedia, and while I realize that Wikipedia doesn't exactly have the reputation
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sheehanje 1/17/13 7:03 PM Thanks to the suggestions on this thread, I gave Bitcasa a try - excellent service, and will be well worth the $10 a month when they start charging...  Took a while for my files to sync up (almost 600GB), but once they got there I'm having no problem
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lee Maisel 1/20/13 7:35 PM Google!! I mean WTF Already!!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 1/21/13 7:00 AM Did somebody try http://mega.co.nz ? They give 50 GB for free.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Anderxale 1/21/13 8:45 AM Just tried it.  Not the same thing as Google Drive or Bitcasa as there is not in-computer syncing. Awesome service in theory, 50 GB for free in a browser-only drag and drop.  The 50GB was what enticed me to try it. First off, you need to hack your
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 1/21/13 8:56 AM Mega encrypts files in the browser before they're sent anywhere, so it makes sense they'd have tight requirements. On their blog, which is idiotically put in a place that appears to be only accessible to those with a Mega account, they had this to sa
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 1/21/13 9:20 AM The grass is hardly ever greener on the other side of the hill.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Luis Fernando Carvalho Cavalheiro 1/21/13 1:40 PM Still working on it? Well, it looks like you at Google will ship a Drive client for GNU / Linux just when hell goes icy.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Wayne Abbott 1/22/13 9:49 AM Ok, guys.  I figured out what the issue is with Drive for Linux.  They hired the Product Team that was working on Duke Nuke'm Forever back in the 1990s to take over Google Drive for Linux. They are using the same development schedule for the latter a
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? lattatude 1/22/13 4:24 PM The Ubuntu One service seems to be the way to go if you want trusted cross platform cloud storage. The price is about the same and there are clients for Windows, Linux and OSX. I've been waiting for Google Drive for so long I just made the move inste
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? John Williams from Bluff 1/22/13 8:20 PM Me too.  Everyone say "Me too", and let Google know how many of us there are. fr
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jørn Skifter Andersen 1/23/13 3:47 AM Me too. Although i think it sucks that google is not responding. 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? artux 1/23/13 4:05 AM Me too. I'm beginning to withdraw from Google services in general. Still using Gmail and the search engine until I find an alternative.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Lee Forest 1/23/13 10:07 AM It ain't coming. They keep saying they are working on it, but it wouldn't have taken this long to put out a beta or something. Its now January, almost February. They would be the slowest developers in history if they are still working on it. Valve pu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew@Work 1/23/13 10:24 AM As much as I like drive, I'm not going to pay for additional storage without and available Linux client.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 1/23/13 10:28 AM If I'm going to give a company money and access to my data its going to be a company that takes my business seriously, not as an afterthought, and certainly not to a company that makes promises and doesn't follow through.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? broxen 1/24/13 12:49 AM Hello Ine, Any update to Google Drive for Linux? Adding my voice to the masses. I use Google Drive and Dropbox on my Chromebook, Windows and Linux machines (+Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus)... Would like to get rid of dropbox altogether, but I need full sy
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? AustinSHend 1/25/13 11:34 AM +1 this.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? lehcim-naej 1/25/13 4:33 PM Why on earth does the stupid thing trqnsform my qwerty keyboard into an azerty one § Is it because my address is in France § WHere they stupid enough to do that §
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Tomasz Białobłocki 1/27/13 9:19 AM Google sux :/ no linux client? what r u thinkink about?!?!?!?!?!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dcweyh 1/27/13 9:29 AM Just pulled the trigger on additional storage on Ubuntu One.  Can't wait forever and it works on all my platforms.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? S Hewa 1/27/13 3:06 PM No google drive for Linux in January 2013.  Was google thinking the world would end in 2012?    SAD..
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 1/27/13 4:30 PM In 3 months Google drive has been released a year ago, and still NO client.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Wil Langford 1/28/13 1:32 PM It's been more than six months.  I'm running out of patience with DropBox and I'm almost completely out of patience with Drive.  While I'd like to pay Google to hold on to my stuff for me, I'm about to sign on with someone else.  I need support on Ma
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Wil Langford 1/28/13 1:37 PM Thanks for the heads up on Ubuntu One.  I wasn't aware of it before. For all of us that are tired of waiting for Google to get around to supporting us, it's good to have options.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jay Kramer 1/28/13 2:02 PM BitTorrent launches a Dropbox alternative with unlimited storage http://www.ibtimes.com/bittorrent-launches-dropbox-alternative-unlimited-storage-1039524?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews jay
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 1/28/13 3:36 PM ... launches only for a small group of testers... and there is no word where the data is stored, except it is "not in the cloud".
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Raynes 1/31/13 2:28 PM Google Drive shouldn't have even been released without a Linux version. I'm aware of Linux's small market share, but that's still a whole lot of contempt to direct at your service. I use Windows and OS X on a daily basis, and only occasionally ever w
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? madAndroid 2/3/13 1:46 PM Hi Teresa, Glad to hear it's still on the cards - any idea of an ETA? It's been over 9 months now ...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Nick Ritar 2/4/13 3:42 AM Still waiting
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 2/4/13 3:47 AM I got sick of waiting so I decided to host my own OwnCloud instance instead. Don't need to wait for anyone any more as it's my own cloud!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Bill Ryder 2/4/13 10:29 AM The good thing about no gdrive client for linux is I don't have to think about moving off dropbox. Now I have dropsync for android which means I don't need to fiddle around with SD card backups, https://www.boxcryptor.com/ to encrypt it - which by t
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? bkfitz 2/5/13 6:17 AM ChromeOS Drive integration is simply a link to the Drive web interface... but having said that, I can't believe there isn't a native linux drive app yet?  What is the latest status from Google Inc?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dariojcs 2/6/13 12:43 PM Hi Teresa, Any updates? Thanks
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? walec51 2/6/13 3:11 PM A year has passed... Is there any update on this topic ? If Linux support wont happen in the next 3 months then I'm moving back to Dropbox. And I'm a paying customer at GDrive.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 2/6/13 3:22 PM As you can tell in the threads Google is ignoring the requests. Best advice is to move on to a company that supports us.  I've been using Dropbox and very happy with it.  Nice support for Linux, Mac, Microsoft, iOS and Andriod.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 2/6/13 4:14 PM This doesn't look really good to promote Google apps for business.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 2/7/13 1:03 AM Realist, ... but no standalone online office suite (in Dropbox).
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Adam Walczak 2/7/13 1:56 AM Google apps for business is a joke. They can't even generate a proper invoice for their service.  They told me to print a Google Wallet screen instead ! My accountant is in bloodshed mode....
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? planetf1 2/7/13 6:57 AM Sigh - was hoping there'd be a linux version by now. Others like dropbox, bitcasa have linux clients -- was really hoping to settle on gdrive (currently pay for extra storage) but the lack of linux support is a pain.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Scott Matics 2/8/13 10:44 PM +1 - Need Google Drive for Ubuntu!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 2/8/13 11:11 PM +1
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Rod Hurford 2/9/13 5:12 AM +1  (its useless to me without it)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dcweyh 2/9/13 9:03 AM I haven't tried it yet but looks promising.  I'd probably use something like inotify instead of cron.  I'll try to get to it this next week and report back. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-grive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Amin Bandali 2/11/13 5:10 PM The fact that still there's no Google Drive client for Linux is getting annoying..
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Greg Miernicki 2/15/13 10:25 AM Why has Google forsaken us?!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Levi White 2/15/13 2:48 PM In the meantime... WINE.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CDE-UK 2/15/13 3:10 PM have you actually tried, and managed to get google drive working on WINE? it doesnt work for me, nor have I found any other reports of it working else I'd be doing it myself.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Greg Miernicki 2/15/13 3:28 PM Same here, running the latest dev version of Wine on Ubuntu 12.04 and no dice for me, just tried :( I'd love to set this up with Wine if someone could tell us how its done!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 2/15/13 3:43 PM Because only a few % of the users are using linux and there is no reason to develop software for them Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2013 19:25:31 UTC+1 schrieb triune:Why has Google forsaken us?!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? ★GA★ 2/15/13 3:44 PM wine does not work with google drive Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2013 23:48:33 UTC+1 schrieb Levi White:In the meantime... WINE.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Yousef Alemiem 2/15/13 3:55 PM Google cant release there client for linux thats makes no sence at least support every application you devolope for linux to  save the company from microsoft evil plan in the near future thats why users going to switch to linux platform wish is obvio
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 2/15/13 4:10 PM No. If that was true, Dropbox and all the other, much smaller companies would not have developed for Linux. It made sense to them to develop for this "small" user base. The devoted their much more limited resources to developing a Linux client. This
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Greg Miernicki 2/15/13 5:03 PM I think I've figured out the real reason G hasn't made a G Drive client for Linux: Most Linux users are developers and can code, so they are subtly trying to persuade them all to develop Chrome Apps that integrate into Drive so we can do everything w
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Levi White 2/15/13 6:41 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jeroen Meijer 2/18/13 11:57 AM Google now is the time!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 2/18/13 1:23 PM If Google is working on a major overhaul of Drive (that includes changes to the desktop client), that might explain both the delay, and their disinclination to give any sort of explanation.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dariojcs 2/18/13 1:25 PM Crossing fingers
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dariojcs 2/18/13 1:25 PM Crossing fingers
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kana1da 2/18/13 1:37 PM Since I can't actually unsubscribe from this annoying thread, and i'm a programmer (Not google's) I'll tell it like it is. a) Linux files are CASE SENSTIVE. Windows doesn't give a damn, so if you have 2 files in the same folder in linux:  a.txt and A
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? madAndroid 2/18/13 1:50 PM <This message has been deleted.>
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 2/18/13 1:52 PM If Dropbox can do it then so can Google! The UI's are different but the underlying filesystem and folder structures are exactly the same. The only personal talking BS here is you my friend. Google themselves use an Ubuntu derivative internally (Goobu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? derekgordon 2/18/13 3:12 PM I assume Google has quit giving a sheep about Linux?  I'm sick of having to use third party solutions for so many Google products on Linux.  Hell, it can't be that difficult to port over because most of them appear to use universal components. Google
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Mike Stanley 2/19/13 9:53 AM Any update on this?  
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? walec51 2/19/13 2:42 PM @kanaida.bat: I'm a paying customer. I heard a lie that the Linux client will soon come. I don't care about Googles internal affairs. Dropbox and OwnCloud have Linux clients Google has not. PERIOD ! 2 month from now I'm moving away from Google Drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Momus 2/20/13 12:16 AM Well, Google Drive is here. On Kubuntu 12.10 But unlike on Windows it stores the files hidden somewhere :-( So no easy way to use file manager to make local backup copies, etc... And Chrome sucks on Linux badly!! Things like dragging bookmarks to a b
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ruwan Jayaweera 2/20/13 12:33 AM What do you mean by "Well, Google Drive is here. On Kubuntu 12.10"? Because, Here(https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive) (If your browsing from Linux) it shows as "Not (yet) supported for Linux."
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kamus Hadenes 2/20/13 6:54 AM Having a hard time on this coding, huh?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? derekgordon 2/20/13 6:59 AM Hahahaha.  Google having a hard time.  No, they just do not care about their paying customers because ad revenue is more than my measly $10/monthly or whatever it is. Music Manager and other crap use Chrome as the backend on Windows and on Linux, rig
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? lattatude 2/20/13 8:04 AM I've found that Firefox has the same issues on some versions of Ubuntu with dragging and dropping bookmarks into folders. It's not just a Chrome thing.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? d3acon 2/20/13 12:56 PM How long can it take to implement this client? If they are not working on it, why can't they just say that they are not working on it? This way I would be pissed only once. Now I am pissed every time I am checking, whether it is available...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? leftbas 2/20/13 6:08 PM Yeah, this ain't cool. Google. Your services rock and are super convenient to use, but the lack of a Google Drive client for Linux, even one that we could compile, is kinda lame. We're coming up on a year since the Widows and MacOS versions came out.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kamus Hadenes 2/20/13 9:17 PM You guys got it, I'm wiping all my data and downgrading my account. No more Google Drive.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Glen Barrington 2/22/13 6:47 AM To put it bluntly, I don't believe you. . .
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kamus Hadenes 2/22/13 6:55 AM There you go.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Fernando Basso 2/23/13 3:28 AM Please, we all want to see a linux client. :)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pablo Rodriguez Pina 2/23/13 4:44 AM Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Yee Dorris Lok 2/24/13 1:53 AM Just wander when google will release the linux client for Drive. It has been over one year!!!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? neovatar 2/25/13 2:04 AM Any news about this? I would love to use Google Drive in Linux and even pay for it.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Fishbowler 2/26/13 2:15 AM Is this still the plan? Is it still in the works?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? tak2100 2/26/13 6:04 AM It's 7 months later.  Any progress?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Alberto K 2/27/13 2:05 PM Its 2013, any progress?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 3/1/13 4:41 PM This is getting a bit stupid. No official client yet, i either have to trust an unknown 3rd party client with my account details and files, or use Dropbox.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Jeroen Meijer 3/2/13 1:36 AM You can also use grive instead of insync, but that is kinda slow.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Dave1010 3/3/13 6:39 PM Is there still one in the works?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Salatiel Filho 3/4/13 4:41 AM Tired of waiting , using dropbox now .
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Edward Yu 3/6/13 4:40 AM Linux support please !
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Derryck 3/6/13 4:49 AM Still waiting for Linux version...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? James Martin 3/6/13 6:48 PM Still in the works? Any updates would be helpful. Really don't want to migrate back to Dropbox...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/9/13 1:45 PM http://drive4linux.com/who-signed/ tell everyone you know to stop bitching and start ass kicking , sign the petition . contact your media "tech" friends and ask them to raise the issue in the tech press. name and shame "google" enginerds on social me
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? 01micko 3/9/13 8:44 PM http://01micko.com/blog/?m=201207 So I wrote a script, depends on grive and rox-filer...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? och ach ach 3/17/13 12:15 AM Hello teresa, so how is the work going on?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Ben Whitley 3/20/13 4:04 PM ChromeOS, good point. Android though, I really don't want a Java version of Google Drive released lol
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Robert Hughes 3/21/13 12:16 PM Dropbox works like a charm on my mobile phone, Linux computers and the windows computers here at home. Dont see what I would want with Google Drive when it soes not even support Linux. Pretty bad from a company like Google... , so people, join Dropbo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/21/13 3:08 PM A problem is that many people do not seem to grasp that at the heart of GDrive is a standalone online office suite.  This makes it different to Dropbox, not only in features but also in function.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 3/21/13 4:07 PM True, but: 1) Third party apps from small startups can make GDrive work, why can't Google? 2) Google got this to work fine on Mac and Windows, what is so hard about making it work in Linux? 3) If there is some problem with Linux, why is the problem n
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 3/21/13 4:24 PM Not to beat a dead horse, but Google refused to keep Reader or iGoogle going (didn't need any changes, just leave the servers turned on), just because they didn't have enough users. Why would I trust my files with Drive when there's a year old thread
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? leftbas 3/21/13 4:35 PM Don't be ridiculous. First, there are  plenty of Windows and MacOS users who are benefiting from a native Drive client. It's just us Linux users that Google seems to be ignoring. Second, Drive still works from the web. I've been using it since before
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 3/21/13 4:37 PM ...said everyone about all the other popular Google services that have since been killed. To clarify, I'm not saying I think that Google Drive is going to disappear tomorrow. But it is worrying that they can let so many users go ignored for so long.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? leftbas 3/21/13 4:46 PM Very funny. You must be equally worried about Gmail, Calendar, Maps and YouTube. There's constructive commentary, and there's whining. You sound like you're whining.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 3/21/13 4:49 PM It's hard to ask for the same thing on a near daily basis for 8 months straight and *not* sound like you're whining. This wasn't a whiny discussion half a year ago when it still looked like Linux support was just over the horizon.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? broxen 3/21/13 5:36 PM 8 months later... Has there been any progress on this? Many users run multiple operating systems in their tech ecosystem. Plus, Google uses its own internal flavor of Ubuntu... What solutions exist for those internal users and when can we see an actu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dcweyh 3/22/13 9:26 AM I'd bet there is a client on some hard drive within Google they just haven't rolled it out.  Hard to say what's going thru the Google mind. Just sayin...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/22/13 9:30 AM http://drive4linux.com/ sign the petition # re tweet chant etc - tell everyone you know to start googling "google drive linux" once an hour - by hand or by script upto you - ask the google people directly - google them and contact them. (google drive
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? och ach ach 3/22/13 9:40 AM thats one way to do it other one is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services just pick one that got all features needed by you i did. no more paid google drive and i have been patient for a long long time
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 3/22/13 9:44 AM OR Use Copy - it's much better, doesn't have the docs integration but you can get 10GB of storage for free and 5GB per referral! https://copy.com?r=SbeMFJ I've given up on Google Drive, but I will keep the "Drive4Linux" site live as it's important fo
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/22/13 10:00 AM ask the engineer with the code to leak it?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/22/13 10:09 AM most of these are ok, but i want super infrastructure thats not going down* because of 'a monkey in the server room' - i want it on all platforms - and that means ALL , most of these companies i dont trust with data or privacy. (spideroak is ok) i wa
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Kev Quirk 3/22/13 10:13 AM Copy has all of the above. It's made by barracuda networks. So their infrastructure is rock solid. They also have clients for all OS's like Dropbox. .deb installers are fine, but installing vis repo is much better and easier IMHO. It boils down to th
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 3/22/13 10:18 AM Best advice, do what I did moved on.  Google has shown it's not interested so I vote with my pocketbook.  I went to Dropbox which supports Mac, MS, Linux and Android.  You're worried about security?  A lot of Enterprises use Dropbox for their Data St
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 3/22/13 10:22 AM Why? Move on and vote with your pocket book, I did.  Dropbox supports all, very reliable and secure. I'm not going to sit here and complain to deaf ears that Google has shown it has.  The only thing they will understand is $$$$$ when the $$$$$ are go
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/22/13 10:38 AM Och ach ach, you did the right thing moving away from GDrive as backup service.  (It is not a safe backup service and does not claim to be.  It cannot be by virtue of its 2-way synchronisation alone -- which is needed for other capabilities -- but th
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? och ach ach 3/22/13 12:27 PM If u ask me i choosed wuala which got a lotta more client functionality (for example on android gdrive i couldnt download folder, set any folder to be on cloud and lotta more), is encrypted, green hosted etc etc. it might be pocket money but its not
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/22/13 12:36 PM Most of the people who will drop GDrive are those who only need a file storage service and do not really understand the functionality of GDrive.  Yes, GDrive appears to have some genuine issues (as opposed to those created by people making errors) bu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew@Work 3/22/13 1:09 PM I use GDrive because I want cross platform file sharing AND the online tools. But more of the competition is publishing hooks so many online tools work with multiple storage providers. The online office suite is evolving, but it's way behind the MS o
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/22/13 4:11 PM SkyDrive is MS Office based and, I think you are tethered to it.  Don't you have to have MS Office on the desktop to make it work properly?  GDocs are standalone and can be downloaded into a variety of file formats.  Similarly, MS Office and O/LO fil
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 3/22/13 4:52 PM Absolutly wrong! I dropped GDrive because they will not support what I spend 99% of my time in, Linux.  There are other options that I currently not only use but "pay" for because they serve my needs.  What is that?  Dropbox who has a native client f
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 3/22/13 5:17 PM For those who use Google drive through an paid Google apps account, even on the "free " tier, they are technically paying for it too, and it is one of the core services entitled to support. And they can't pay less for opting out of that service...
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Pingtux 3/23/13 5:08 AM That was a joke, wasn't it? Is it still in the works?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? neovatar 3/23/13 3:31 PM Thanks for the hint about Copy, I did not know that service. Been trying it for a few days now and it seems solid and stable. I also wrote a script to create Debian packages from the official tgz installer. You can find the script on github: https://
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? MasterGeek 3/23/13 5:54 PM I've got a relative who is a Google developer. I saw him over Christmas, and my first question was about Google Drive for Linux. He said he's just as annoyed about it as the rest of us. Like all the other Google developers, his work computer runs lin
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/24/13 6:09 AM the petition http://drive4linux.com/ the google+ https://plus.google.com/communities/100446867756401132394 the twitter https://twitter.com/GDrive4Linux
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? och ach ach 3/24/13 6:33 AM I remember petition, google+ #gd4l etc etc, how long the site is up now? Did it change anything? No, it didn't. Google will provide gdrive4linux eventually when the loss of users using cloud will get to them ($). Petition won't do the trick
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/25/13 6:56 AM I've been leading Google Drive for over three years now. :) Google Drive for Linux is indeed in progress. We don't talk publicly about release timelines so I can't provide more detail on that. Thanks for your patience! sj https://plus.google.com/+Sco
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/25/13 6:57 AM I've been leading Google Drive for over three years now. :) Google Drive for Linux is indeed in progress. We don't talk publicly about release timelines so I can't provide more detail on that. Thanks for your patience! sj https://plus.google.com/+Sco
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? dariojcs 3/25/13 7:10 AM +sapien_red, thanks for posting Scott's reply :) +1
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew@Work 3/26/13 4:51 AM Yes SkyDrive is MS Office based, but you're not tethered to it. I use the web version from my Linux computer all the time. The office suite is better than Google Docs. I know Microsoft won't support a Linux client anytime soon, but it doesn't seem li
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? 01micko 3/26/13 5:16 AM Could be that you are getting some heat from the competitors? https://www.ox.io/ox_text ??? (where's the damn link button? ) So Scott, please tell us what is so different about Android and Chrome (OS) as is to any other Linux base distribution, inclu
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? 01micko 3/26/13 6:08 AM Yeah, yeah.. know about AUFS, Guppy and all that legacy stuff... (re previous msg)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/26/13 9:48 AM Matthew, don't you need MS Office on your desktop to operate SkyDrive at optimum level.  Does it work if I don't have MS Office locally but, say, O/LO or something else? 01micko, I followed the link.  What is the big deal about OX?  Only word proces
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? leftbas 3/26/13 9:52 AM A very well-written and thoughtful post.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew@Work 3/26/13 10:06 AM I've just used the web version of SkyDrive Office, it is pretty decent, much more complete than Google Docs office. I'm comparing both on a Linux machine and the Chrome browser. From what I hear SkyDrive office works just fine from a Chromebook.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/26/13 10:26 AM Matthew, I don't doubt that the web-based apps are fancier than the GDocs equivalents but can one interchange freely with at least one or two non-MS apps on the desktop.  That, to me, is one great benefit of GDocs.  Although I run a good fraction of
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? MasterGeek 3/26/13 10:49 AM While this may be true, the point of these online productivity tools like Google Docs and the SkyDrive version of MS Word isn't to be as feature-rich as the full MS Office suite, but to provide collaboration features (like you and your buddy editing
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DAS1951 3/26/13 11:04 AM That is my question.  I thought I saw a possibility to download from SkyDrive into O/LO but I had also read you need MS Office on the desktop for the full benefit (hence my earlier comment about being "tethered"). I think the problem for MS is that i
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 3/26/13 11:43 AM Hi Steven,
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Matthew@Work 3/26/13 11:49 AM Yes we know they're "working on it". But really it shouldn't be that hard, they already have a Windows client, it shouldn't take that long to throw together a Linux client. I'm not sure what sort of kick they need to actually get it done.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Amos Folarin 3/27/13 3:59 AM I give up, I've been waiting too long now. Has anyone tried either of these? Insync or Gdrive? http://www.howtogeek.com/130380/how-to-use-google-drive-on-linux-2-unofficial-solutions/
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? och ach ach 3/27/13 4:06 AM RE @Amos I did. You can try but it's not stable. If you want to get it working it will take some time and might not work as expected. And insync will have only paid version after beta.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Rick Jameson 2 3/27/13 9:21 AM Yeah I can't believe this. I just started using Drive because of my school's Gmail system, and I use Linux mostly for PyRoom because it's fricking amazing. I was literally shocked that I couldn't find the "Download GoogleDrive for Linux" link in my C
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Dominik Zogg 3/27/13 4:17 PM If you are willing to pay (9.90$, ones) you can use this: https://www.insynchq.com
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Scott Patrick 3/30/13 9:12 AM And now it's April 2013 ...is it STILL in the works ?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 4/1/13 7:40 AM you can get involved in the global protest here:- https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100446867756401132394/stream/cbcac359-e41d-4d8c-9940-45d09cb32da7 and sign the petition here http://drive4linux.com/who-signed/ last news on the issue is here h
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 4/6/13 3:05 PM Google hit back at petition organizer https://plus.google.com/u/0/107532714495314593816/posts/MXyiQwV7qQ3 http://drive4linux.com/who-signed/ 
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rashdanml 4/8/13 7:59 AM Well, speaking of other cloud storage solutions with Linux support: https://www.copy.com/home/ They're having a promotional "Get 5GB" for both referrer and referee on successful invite. I just heard of it recently. Part of me wonders if they're holdi
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Zied ALAYA 4/17/13 11:26 PM I am very disappointed in the lack of interest Google has shown to the linux users and community.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 5/1/13 4:03 PM OMG Did we miss the one year anniversary? Drive was released one year ago last Wednesday! Did anyone do anything special to celebrate? I, for one, uncoupled myself from Google. Google Now is turned off on my phone, Chrome for Android is not signed in
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? DanH1420 5/1/13 4:10 PM Wow, it's been a year already? It seems like not too long ago I still had hopes there would actually be a Linux client for Google Drive. Now I've been left a bitter, cynical old man who wouldn't want to switch to Google Drive now anyway. Other servic
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 5/1/13 4:24 PM Happy one year anniversary. (hehehe)
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? 01micko 5/2/13 3:50 AM No drive for Linux. That's it folks. G is not interested. No dough in it so no effort from them. Yes Google.. you have become "them".  }:^( Hmm.. shut down my G+? ... maybe. I don't have anything mission critical dependent on it. As for a search engi
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Maciej Miklas 5/13/13 10:59 PM still nothing.... this really sucks!
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 5/13/13 11:15 PM destroying their profits is a good start. so it's been well over year and no word fron Google yet. in the amount of time it's taken small startups like dropbox and a dozen or more similar companies, Google, the company that is rolling out gigabit lin
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 5/13/13 11:26 PM they figure as long as these dumbshit open source people believe we are building them a client they will fall in line and support us like we told them to. they used the work of countless people developing an open source os. they took that from us, re
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? CrazzzyBudha 5/13/13 11:40 PM Google doesn't care abut about us, either as consumer or contributes to the code base that made themprofitable. they are happy to take from us and give nothing in return. not even a timeline. I suggest you all follow suit. stop waiting on Google to l
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? vinit pandey 5/25/13 10:12 PM almost one year has gone and still no support for Linux :(
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Christopher Carr 5/26/13 2:14 PM FWIW, a Google engineer who works on the Drive SDK _promised_ me on G+ that a Linux client is going to happen.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Nigel Duncan 5/26/13 5:16 PM ..and they "PROMISED" a year ago it was a priority?
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? FizzerUK 5/29/13 2:39 AM 1 year later in works...  :(
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Realist 5/29/13 11:53 AM Hogwash! Case sensitivity?  My company provides an enterprise solution to sync, store and serve up files on both *nix and CIFS file systems, it's not difficult. Desktops?  It's all about the kernel which is linux and the tool set surrounding the kern
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? Surrealism 5/31/13 1:20 PM On the bright side, we will all be remembered as part of one of the biggest and longest running Google product threads in Google groups probably.
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? rashdanml 5/31/13 2:02 PM Seeing as most people here are Linux folks, I might as well part this here. OwnCloud is a nice piece of software to create your own private cloud. Both server and desktop sync clients are fully supported on Linux, you control the storage (1TB costs v
Re: When will Google Drive come to Linux? sapien_red 6/1/13 7:02 AM http://drive4linux.com/who-signed/ 1900 http://bit.ly/gd4l-petition 539 http://bit.ly/gd4l-com 253 *cough* not done yet ;)
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