Life is Better With a Dropbox | Linux Today

Life is Better With a Dropbox

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2009

[ Thanks to William Masopust for this
link. ]

“I have Dropbox synchronize files between three
computers. The first computer is a self-built PC running Ubuntu
9.04 (Linux). The second computer is an iMac runnin OS X Leopard
(10.5). The third computer is a Dell running Windows Vista. The
installation was consistent and easy across all three systems. Once
each of the three systems were set up (they weren’t set up at the
same time), it was a matter of seconds before they were hard at
work synchronizing the files in my Dropbox folder. As predicted,
when the sync was complete, the small notification informed me that
my files were successfully synced. After that, I was able to access
and change those files on any of the three systems without a hint
of trouble. (A note to make here is that Dropbox was the best
online data synchronization/backup service that worked as easily
with Linux as it does with Windows and OS X. I’m a Linux user, so
this was quite important for me. I greatly appreciate it when
companies include the Linux community in their user base. For that,
I will give Dropbox my highest recommendation for Linux
users.)”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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