Ubuntu One: interesting concept!

[tony baldwin]

H.S. wrote:
> anthony baldwin wrote:
>   
>> Mark Nichols wrote:
>>     
>>> On 05/13/2009 12:47 PM, H.S. wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> It does look kind of useful.
>> I just use sshfs to move files between my laptop and main box, though.
>> Works pretty well.
>>     
>
> Never tried sshfs, but I have used rsync (via ssh) for some years. Words
> very well to keep my different directories in sync. However, rsync via
> ssh is not for the common user. Not sure about sshfs. But this Ubuntu
> One might be the solution for common users to keeps their stuff in sync.
> Plus the scheduling and collaboration features look promising.
>
>
>   
sshfs just allows one to mount a dir from one machine on another.
I mount my /home from my main office box to my laptop to grab files, 
when working outside of my home/office, and put the files back after 
working on them.
It really wouldn't do for collaboration, since I'm not letting anyone 
else mount my /home dir.
I have used google docs to collaborate on documents.

/tony