[lug] Ubuntu users: request for topics for articles

[Zan Lynx]

Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
> Ubuntu One, which isn't yet out, doesn't sound like it will be 
> cross-platform.  It sounds like it'll just be an Ubuntu-specific 
> analogue of Dropbox, which is cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux).
> 
> I quite like Dropbox so far.   My sister, who's a professional artist 
> and knows nothing other than clicking and dragging, likes and uses it, 
> too, as do our sales guys.
> 
> The for-pay version gets you 50-100G, but you can get up to 5G for free. 
>  That's more space than most of the thumb drives I have lying around.
> 
> It gets quite confused by links (symbolic or real).  I can imagine 
> that'd be hard for a cross-platform product.
> 
> I think I've read that it's built on top of S3, svn, and rsync.  It 
> isn't just network storage, though.  The transfer uses the network, but 
> you end up with real, local copies of everything.
> 
> I plead ignorance about whether it does PDAs, iPods, iPhones, etc.

Why can't anyone make a simple, easy to use and pretty synchronization 
program that doesn't require online storage?

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