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arkanus

Ubuntu One - A great service for students

I am currently a graduate student and thus create a lot of documents. Of course losing any of these documents, perhaps to a drive failing, or forgetting to bring them to class would be a big problem.

Enter Ubuntu One.

I type my documents and save them to their respective folders. Each folder has been designated as a folder that should be uploaded to my Ubuntu One account. All of these documents are quietly uploaded to a cloud server where they are protected from drive failure and accessible by any computer with an internet connection. If I forget to bring my notes for the day, I can just show up a few minutes early and print a backup copy from the library.

The best part is that these are all text documents so the 2 GB of free space that I receive is plenty.

For any other students out there, or people that need to transport documents from one location to another, Ubuntu One may be a helpful tool for you too.

Posted Jan 30, 2011, 3:01 AM UTC

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juaquin•

I use Dropbox since it's cross platform, but yeah, the whole concept of storing vital data (like school documents) in the cloud as well as in local filesystems is a great idea. In order for me to lose my schoolwork, all three of my computers plus all of dropbox's copies would have to be wiped out.

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Ellipsis•

Ubuntu One is also cross platform. There are both Android and iOS clients available and the windows beta client can be downloaded from here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Windows

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juaquin•

So they're working on it. That's good. Plans for OSX?

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Linkian06•

Dropbox also allows you to net more than 2gb free without much difficulty. I think you can actually get upto 16gb of free service.

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ferrarisnowday•

You can access all of your Ubuntu one files from the website. I'm not sure how dropbox works, but Ubuntu One is cross platform in that sense.

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juaquin•

Not the same. Ubuntu One will not automatically sync a folder from your Windows PC to the website and back down to your Ubuntu install. Yes, you can access it from the website (Dropbox allows this too), but that's a major pain. Dropbox actually installs on the system and syncs folders on all platforms.

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ferrarisnowday•

That is an advantage. The Tomboy and Ubuntu One music store features are more important to me though, since the only Windows boxes I regularly use for school are the ones in the campus labs, which I can't install software on anyway.

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juaquin•

Yeah streaming music from the store like that is really cool. Apple will probably pick up on that soon

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ferrarisnowday•

I started grad school this month and am literally doing the exact same thing. Just a couple more things to point out:

1.) If you use more than one Ubuntu computer, everything isn't only backed up to the cloud, but also to each computer's hard drive.

2.) It has seamless, effortless integration with Tomboy, which I have really started to like using for typing up my notes.

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kuratkull•

I would suggest SpiderOak, it's much more configurable(you can sync any folder, anywhere) and the data is encrypted on their servers, you are the only one having access to it.

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blackn1ght•

I've never been a fan of Ubuntu One, but I've noticed over the past month or so the service has become a lot more reliable. Files are syncing immediately after being added and the music store actually downloads tracks now immediately after purchase. Good to see it maturing.

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arkanusOP•

I never had a problem with it, but I certainly would not be surprised if others have had one.

The music store is another excellent service from Ubuntu. I also like seeing services pop up that could lead to a lot of revenue for them, because they certainly deserve to make some money.

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pHreaksYcle•

I can't get behind Ubuntu One personally. I recognize that it's good it exists to help keep Ubuntu running, but it's not for me. Dropbox, baby.

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slughappy1•

Allow me to refer anyone to Dropbox. If you signup this way, we both get free extra space on top of the free 2 GB they already give you. Plus it works Linux, Windows, OS X, and mobiles too.

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arkanusOP•

That looks pretty cool. I am happy with my Ubuntu One, but if I needed it to be cross-platform that service looks good.

I do notice that it is an affiliate link, which is probably why you are getting downvoted. I don't see why people are so mad because you, basically, disclosed it in your post.

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slughappy1•

It's probably because I said that I was referring you to another product that isn't from Canonical/Ubuntu. It also might have been because I didn't say anything about why I use Dropbox instead of Ubuntu One. Oh darn, I'm happy someone took me up on my offer and got a little extra space for free.

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