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Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

deander2 writes "Apple's 'Time Machine' is cool, but I use Linux, not MacOSX. So here is a Linux implementation (built off of rsync, of course). No fancy OpenGL, but quite functional none-the-less."

7 of 425 comments (clear)

  1. Warning! Do Not Use! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Never stick your dick in to an unknown glory hole. You never know what is going to happen.

    I learned this the hard way last night.

  2. useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    since linux behaves ok when it move files in presence of exceptional conditions. there is no need for time machine.

  3. Re:Makes you wonder ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    awful product

  4. Re:Not the interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    great job Mr. English! Cornflakes .. Piss?

  5. Re:Meh. by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Suck donkey wang ya poser. Ubuntu was hardly difficult to install. Plomp cd in, click install, hit next a bunch of times, make a user account (via gui), reboot, voila.

    Just because you're turd munching lack of knowledge rhetoric breathing no-brain loser doesn't mean the rest of us can't master the nature of "point and click."

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  6. Re:Meh. by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's funny you say that, because I *DO* compose music with my Ubuntu powered laptop.

    Lilypond FTW!

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  7. Re:Eh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft's doing good work, stop being such asses. How long have you been on Slashdot?