[Wolves] Dropbox as your home directory

[Kevanf1]

On 18 February 2010 11:17, Peter Cannon <dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:
> Andy Jewell wrote:
>
>> If there's a FUSE driver to mount your dropbox, it should work.
>>
>> But it would probably be slow - unless for instance with Ubuntu One, you make a local replica of your couchdb database (couchdb is what is behind Ubuntu One).
>
> Hm, If you had said "It will be slow due to constant syncing" I would have been
> tempted to agree I have stuff like databases ect stored in /home/peter/.dropbox
> and cant say I notice any major deficit in performance from applications I should
> also say I've not had two machines accessing files simultaneously.
>
> The idea though would be to replace /home/peter with /home/dropbox OK it would
> probably still be called /peter but in effect it would be 'your' dropbox folder
> stuff like Tbird, Pidgin, etc would install to that folder. The tricky bit would
> be ensuring new installs of say Tbird did not overwrite your config file but
> rather import the one (potentially) already there.
>
>

I've seen Dropbox showcased by the BBC Click programme last weekend.
It does look good...very good.  My question more than anything is what
are the licensing details?  Is it open source or at least compatible
with Ubuntu and other distro's?


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