I have been checking it almost daily for like a week now, and I have yet to see any activity there. It might actually be abandoned or simply parked for future use. There is a project to develop KDE client on Launchpad but it seems to be in very early stages of development. I decided to pass on the Gnome client and wait for a KDE or at least a command line version.
I checked what it would take for me to install Nautilus and ended up with over 200 packages that needed to be downloaded. This sucks for me, because I’m a die-hard KDE user who runs Kubuntu. Here is my problem with the service – the Linux client is heavily dependent on Gnome and Nautilus. The service just works, and has clients for Windows, Apple and Linux. I wouldn’t put any sensitive data in that special folder without encrypting it first. Naturally, you should be concerned with privacy issues but that’s what encryption is for.
And if you are away from your machines, you can access your files via their web interface. You don’t really have to do anything – you just save files into your dropbox folder and they get updated everywhere.
So the latest change you do on your desktop will be seamlessly pushed out to your laptop, and your work computer. If you add more than one computer to your account, Dropbox will automatically sync the files from all of them. Anything in that folder will be automatically synced up with Dropbox’s server almost in real time. You install their client, add a computer to your account and designate a folder on your drive.
The concept is simple – Dropbox gives you a free 2GB of space on their server. I usually describe it to people as a cross between rsync and web 2.0 application. It is the latest and the greatest file syncing project out there. If you haven’t heard about Dropbox you have probably been living under a rock for the last month or two.
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