The p-Code Machine

It’s been a while since Ubuntu One was announced, but now in Karmic Koala it’s getting included by default, so I finally decided to try it… And it really works like a charm. I’ve configured my home workstation, my laptop and my workstation at work all to my Ubuntu One account, and now I have a quick and easy way to getting files in sync on all three… In the past used used to scp files around, which could get pretty bothersome… Ubuntu One makes this all automagical!

Canonical has received some flak from the community about keeping the server backend closed source… Lets keep some perspective on this… First Canonical releases their Enterprise (LTS) version binaries for free… RedHat (RHEL) certainly doesn’t, Novell (SLES) even makes it bothersome to get to the sources of their Enterprise product, or at least it wasn’t obvious to me. Google doesn’t release the sources to their search engine either… We still (sortof) love Google, don’t we?

My point being there is nothing wrong with Canonical wanting to make a buck. And their offer for 2GB of storage for free is more than generous. Especially since it’s not really ment as a replacement for regular file transfer protocols.

And most important of all… I don’t need to install some oddball proprietary binary on my workstation (in the hopes it won’t send some of my user info to some company in secrecy) to use Ubuntu One. Remember the client is very open source, so we can verify, that at least the client is to be trusted.