Dropbox on Ubuntu 8.10
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to use Dropbox on the popular Ubuntu distribution.
For those who haven't heard of Dropbox, think of it as online backups made super simple. You can also share files across computers, share files with anyone (publicly) and create photo galleries and share them too.
Dropbox is one of those things that once you start using it, you really wonder why this hasn't been done before. In fact, it is so easy that it just becomes part of your daily life and you stop thinking about it!
Dropbox is a tech startup which has received funding via the TechCrunch Top 50. It has been publicly available since September 11 2008, and the clients for Windows, MacOS and Linux were released simultaneously. It is good to see that Linux was on their radar and is being well looked after.
When you install the client, you get access to that storage space via a mapped drive. In the case of the Linux client, it maps to your Home directory, so you can access it via /home//Dropbox.
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