[lug] Ubuntu users: request for topics for articles

[Jeffrey Haemer]

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.


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Michael J. Hammel <
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:28 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> > How about Windows support in Ubuntu?  Can you put your Turbo Tax CD in
> > the drive and double-click on Install?  Can you put World of Warcraft on
> > it? (I know you can but I never did it myself).  I am thinking about
> > Wine for these questions, not using a virtual machine.
>
> That would require expending cash on commercial software to test it.
> Magazines (at least the ones I write for) don't usually offer expenses
> on top of the commission.  And since they pay so little, it's not really
> worth my cost, especially since I'll never use those titles again.
>
> > How about cross-platform document synchronization, including to other
> > desktops, laptops, PDAs, phones, iPods.  I know about Unison but it's
> > pretty ugly, slow and difficult to configure and automate, especially on
> > Windows.  This can't be answered by using network storage either,
> > because plenty of documents need to be available when networks are not.
>
> I was researching Ubuntu yesterday and noticed they have something
> related to this.  I think its called Ubuntu One.  I know nothing about
> it, but did find that some in the community don't like its commercial
> aspect.  There appear to be some alternatives.
>
> That will make for a good article.  I'll put that on my list.
>
> Thanks Zan.
> --
> Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software
> Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
> http://graphics-muse.org
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