Ubuntu One: interesting concept!

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:39 PM, anthony baldwin <photodharma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Nichols wrote:
>> On 05/13/2009 12:47 PM, H.S. wrote:
>>> Just saw this:
>>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/hands-on-canonical-aims-for-the-cloud-with-new-ubuntu-one.ars
>>>
>>> Looks very interesting. I think a large set of users will love this
>>> feature who want to keep a set of files in sync across various machines.
>>> Plus it is bringing collaboration in a big way to Ubuntu and Linux!
>>
>> I make heavy use of Dropbox (http://getdropbox.com). It's biggest plus
>> is that it has clients for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, making it an
>> OS-agnostic synchronization service.
> It does look kind of useful.
> I just use sshfs to move files between my laptop and main box, though.
> Works pretty well.

I'm using it across Jaunty, Hardy and OSX - it's suprisingly useful.
It's more than just ssh copying - it's automatic no hassle
syncronization with version control.
I'm liking it more and more to be honest.
And if somebody tries it they could mention me so I get more free
space (I'm not a paying customer and I'm running shy on space :-)

UbuntuOne as I understand it (more research to do) is not fully open,
so has no inherent superiority over Dropbox and doesn't do encryption
or other platforms.   I hope it does well for them as I'd like Ubuntu
to have more revenue streams - but I'm not sure I'll use it.

Brian
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