Comments on: Dropbox on Ubuntu

By: Raphaël Hertzog

Raphaël Hertzog — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:52:55 +0000

Debian and Ubuntu now have official packages for dropbox (they’re named nautilus-dropbox): see http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/06/official-debian-ubuntu-packages-for-nautilus-dropbox/

By: Using KeepassX on Ubuntu Linux « Steven Harms

Using KeepassX on Ubuntu Linux « Steven Harms — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:03:00 +0000

[...] Recently I switched my personal password manager from Revelation to KeepassX. I keep an encrypted password file in my Dropbox account, which syncs across all of my computers (Dropbox on Ubuntu). [...]

By: Randall

Randall — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:55:12 +0000

Huh? Ubuntu One. It’s already built-in.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:42:10 +0000

Actually, I think it is
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

By: Andres Monroy-Hernandez

Andres Monroy-Hernandez — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:46:37 +0000

Why not just add this to the sources:
http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu jaunty main

and then do
sudo apt-get install dropbox

By: WorkingWriter

WorkingWriter — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:20:31 +0000

I’ve had Dropbox working well on openSUSE for awhile now. The packager integrates Dropbox with GNOME Nautilus, but this isn’t really a hassle for KDE users either.

Will check out SpiderOak as a possible alternative, though. Security matters, indeed.

By: aodhagan

aodhagan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:48:52 +0000

There has been a lot of press around dropbox, but I personally prefer SpiderOak at SpiderOak.com. It is also natively available on Linux, they have published some of their code under the GPLv3, it has a lot of cool features (like sync between devices and share rooms), but most importantly – They are a zero knowledge storage service. Security matters.

aodhagan

By: Juanjo

Juanjo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:16:54 +0000

After some buzz here and there I took a look to dropbox, and I was very surprised because dropboxd component is actually closed source.

Sorry, but this is an issue for me and I wouldn’t recommend closed source software.

By: zerwas

zerwas — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:19:11 +0000

I encrypt my files with PGP before uploading them to Dropbox.

By: JGJones

JGJones — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:11:42 +0000

I use Dropbox myself….it’s awesome.

A slight peeve of it though…they use Amazon S3 for storage, but encyption key belongs to them, not you. While you can always encrypt your files before putting in Dropbox, it does add some hassle.

As a result I only use Dropbox for non-essential documents etc with no personal information.

However iFolder have risen from the dead and is suddenly active, I find myself getting interested in that since it would mean I have control over my data (as well as better means of sync’ing data among multiple devices!) I think I’ll find myself using a mixture of the two perhaps – ie Dropbox would be much simpler and quicker to put onto a new computer even as a temporary measure to start with – ie I treat Dropbox as a “memory stick” that I never lose