Dropbox for Linux
The linux client for Dropbox is now available.
To put it simply - you run a client on your computers, and it syncs a ~/Dropbox directory with the Dropbox web service (which uses Amazon's S3 as their backend). You now have all the stuff you cared about synced with your desktop, your laptop, etc. As a bonus you can share directories with friends AND the web interface has built in per-file rollback version control. It's pretty hot. More info here. I use it for my wallpapers, documents, and even some dotfiles that I want on all my PCs.
Anyway this is a godsend if you have multiple PCs and whatnot, and it's the only tool in this space that I've seen so far that even tries to support Linux, and it's the simplest of its kind I've seen so far, so I give it a thumbs up.
Download here. (Note, you need an invite, and I am out, but I've given a bunch out yesterday and today to a bunch of Ubuntu people on identi.ca, so either ask around or check out their forums or something - and yes, only the nautilus plugin is GPL, the client and server are closed; so before you lecture at me go fix iFolder first plskthx.)
I use it too, I was very happy to see the developers giving the love to linux.
I heard that if you share a folder with someone, that someone gets invited, being this a workaround for lack of invites.
Posted by: Miguel | September 05, 2008 at 19:28
I got invites available, if anyone needs any email to vperetokin (at) gmail (dot) com
Posted by: Vadim P. | September 05, 2008 at 19:53
Hey Jorge,
You should be looking at SpiderOak. Linux support from day one. Their version 2.0 is about to be released. They have put code out there as GPLv3. I also know people on the development team and there is talk of making the whole code base gpl. They have all the drop box features in the 2.0betas. Its multiplatform. Uses QT and python. Most importantly it is completely cryptographically secure, even from the SpiderOak team, so don't forget your password. Try them out and then update your blog with a new post so that people know about this funky cool option. Thanks.
Posted by: Aodhagan | September 06, 2008 at 08:16
Wow, spideroak looks cool, I will take a look at it.
Posted by: jorge | September 06, 2008 at 11:32