Ubuntu One Hits the Million Users Mark

dkd903 writes "Roberta Nilerud of Canonical has announced that their cloud storage service – Ubuntu One – has hit the one million users mark. Ubuntu One is a cloud storage service from Canonical that is very tightly integrated into Ubuntu. Although Ubuntu One is installed by default in Ubuntu, it is also available on Windows and Android."

Comments

just a drop in the cloud

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope you enjoy being a drop in the cloud, sheeple. Real men use something that no one uses yet OR that no one uses anymore.

Re:just a drop in the cloud

[Technician]

True story.. This year I used DOS Backup.

Needed to retrieve some family letters and records from a deceased relative's backup on 3.5 inch floppies. Rebuilt a Windows 3.1 machine and restored the DOS backups to recover the files. The PFS First Choice files could not export the files into anything that would preserve the formatting in something more modern. A Google search provided the answer. Import the documents into Star Office and export them as MS Word 97 files. This was done on a Windows 98 machine. Sometimes it pays to keep old software for emergencies. Real Men keep backups.

Re:just a drop in the cloud

[equex]

Actually, I'm the guy without the TV, and also an avid hater of the Cloud. Maybe useful for a few people but its really not a big deal and certainly not the Next Big Thing (tm). It's the whole cycle of thin clients and mainframes all over again. It's gonna end up with people preferring to have their shit locally, just like they decided that it's useful to have a beefed up workstation instead of a centralized CPU monster.

Re:huh

[AliasMarlowe]

It's not clear what proportion of Ubuntu users actually use Ubuntu One. We have three PCs at home running Ubuntu (four users), and have never registered with Ubuntu One, and are unlikely to do so.

Re:huh

[AvitarX]

I'm more curious how many are paid.

I pay for a 20pack and the mobile. it leaves a little to be desired (I'd really like to see a plugin for a music player to play out of the could, so on my computers with small HDs I can play from the cloud, but sync and play local on others). But it is quite funtional on my phone.

It's also not as cheap as Amazon's solution, but it is open and accessible (note, they recently included a free 20GB for the $3.99/month music service, so it may be cheapest).

Link?

[Ambvai]

So neither the article or the summary actually link to the main product at hand. Convenient.

Here: https://one.ubuntu.com/

Support for other distributions?

[halfaperson]

it is also available on Windows and Android

Perhaps, but I've got a few computers all running different Linux distributions (as is common amongst Linux geeks), and as long as they can't sync, Ubuntu One will have to wait.

as a cloud sceptic and ubuntu user let me comment

[drolli]

a) My primary use for ubuntu one is to buy music from the ubuntu one music store. Its handy to haver everything you bought available on all laptops.

b) a second important function, which i dont use (i dont like my contact data in the cloud) is the synchronization with a mobile phone. There is no working built-in way in ubuntu which allows this.

c) for some time the service was very slow and syncronization was unpredictable, so i dont use it for serious stuff right now.

d) I would like a better integration in the desktop for start/pause sync for single folder or everything (if i am on my mobile AP i do not like to sync everything).

e) it lacks storage encryption (unless you use encfs on the top, and encfs has issues itself)

it is possible

[decora]

to filter out irrelevant results using the quote marks feature, the plus and minus signs, and so forth and so on.

Re:huh

[stevey]

That's actually pretty interesting - As it says that about 50% of the users with the packages installed are using it.

Higher than I'd have imagined.

Re:Mac OS X support?

[binarylarry]

No one cares about proper "Unix" anymore, Linux is the new Unix.

Re:huh

[ynp7]

You talk about shoddy reporting and then pull numbers straight out of your ass? Good show, my man. Good show.

Re:Mac OS X support?

[Anonymous Coward]

Certainly not, just look how many Macs they're selling these days.

Re:Price per GB is too high

[TangoMargarine]

"Unlimited TB of storage and bandwidth for $9 per month"? If it sounds too good to be true...