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Canonical Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services
jones_supa (887896) writes "Wanting to focus their efforts on their most important strategic initiatives and ensuring that the company is not spread too thin, Canonical is shutting down Ubuntu One file services. With other services now regularly offering from 25 GB to 50 GB of free storage, the personal cloud storage space wasn't a sustainable place for Canonical. As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store. The Ubuntu One software will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately.
The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted. For a spark of solace, the company promises to open source the backend code."
The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted. For a spark of solace, the company promises to open source the backend code."
I for one used this service to share files between my Ubuntu desktops, it worked seamlessly. It is especially useful for development files (programs and scripts) that I share between my different workplaces.
If anyone has a replacement suggestion that integrates well with the Ubuntu desktop, I would be glad to hear from it.
Canonical is genius on wasting money , they start so many project , and neither of them actually works great . just look at unity , mir and so many other. e.g unity first written in (i think) gtk , then Canonical created nux (c++ framework), then ported to nux , and unity 2 to qml , and now they port whole unity to Qt again. something same will happen for mir . then no serious company never will look at mir seriously (like nvidia ATI )
Never used this service before, don't know why, maybe because it's not installed by default on kubuntu.
The non-permanence of cloud services like storage and sharing is going to be hard to solve. Sure some will last. But some will not. How do you choose the ones the will?
How will the industry handle the increasing number of people that have suffered "cloud failure". These people are going to be reluctant to use future services.
A common problem with companies that has a strong FOSS leaning, is that they come up with a lot of good ideas that will often not take off too well. And often will be discontinued shortly.
Now I applaud them for trying, however it creates a catch 22 problem.
If people do not feel comfortable that your service will last, they will not use it, your next idea will not be utilized because you have created a history of dropping products.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I started using sugarsync's free edition -- then they decided to better serve their customers by eliminating that option .. so i moved to Ubuntu one. And now It appears that Canonical is also wanting to better serve their customers by discontinuing the service.
My space requirements are very very slim (maybe 200MB) Would Dropbox be the go-to replacement (all machines are running windows)
Are they posting fools on 2nd April? No, i think they use Ubuntu One to update they're blog, they posted that thing yesterday
I've used it and it works nicely across multiple Linux Distros though for Dev files, why not a github account?
captcha = hooked
When you "sell" your labor for free these things happen. Hurts. See, Truth.
Seriously , why do so many people thinking transfering files is some new problem still looking for a solution? I can understand it for Windows users but Linux users really should know better.
Now at last, a reason to rediscover Ubuntu, all over again...
[quote]The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted.[/quote]
Yikes! There will definitely be people who lose data because of such a short time scale between announcement and deletion. They should keep it up for at least a year from the cancellation of service.
Pardon this post as it is heavy on opinion. If you think it's so far off the mark you want to mod me down, it would be far more productive to reply.
Ubuntu One was a pretty big deal and one of the last good things attached to Canonical Ubuntu's name (IMHO). Hard times at Canonical perhaps? Canonical has always struck me as a company that won't be around forever, if even a few scant more years. They are always either too busy chasing unrealistic goals in the hopes of being elevated to the levels of the real major players in tech, or are busy fighting against popular trends and pushing back against the overall direction of Linux and Open Source.
The death of Canonical is a shake up the Linux development community needs for both perspective and spurring continued innovation in Linux and Linux distributions.
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It always just seemed like the first step toward them becoming a really crappy apple store.
Now if they just ditch unity and mir and their advertising in the dash, I can go back to using ubuntu.
If you mean software or web pages you're developing, svn or other source control really is worth the 20 minutes or so it takes to set up the first time. Even if you're the only developer on the project. Github makes it easy to access your git repositories from anywhere if you don't have a server or dyndns.
I didn't use source control for fifteen years because it seemed like it would be a hassle. When an employee set it up, I learned it reduces hassles.
I use BitTorrent Sync to syncronize a couple of file shares between 2 workstations (Ubuntu+Win7), 1 laptop (Win7), and a ubuntu-12.04 server. I also use this to syncronize backup files between a production server and a backup server. Personally I've been able to retire my Dropbox account and a Ubuntu One account with this utility. This set-up has run well for almost 1-year. It does take a little more technical knowledge to set this up but I think it's well worth the effort.
You know that Linux easily represents at least 10% of the total install market in the US today? Don't you? The numbers from sales are skewed because of the M$Tax but the truth of the matter is that Linux has a larger home user number than Windows 8 or OSX.
The service sucked from the beginning and if i want to have my mainly OS as a platform to get cloud services shuffled up my ass then i buy apple, android, or chrome OS.
SpiderOak - Zero-Knowledge: https://spideroak.com/
Works on Windows, OS X, Linux (Debian, RH, and Slackware), mobile. I recently received an email from them with an offer of $125/year for unlimited space (sync and backup, automatic). That's a pretty good offer if you compare it with any other cloud provider.
You can't use it via the web browser, though. Because it's zero-knowledge they can't tell what's in your data blocks so they can only link to files that you shared publicly.
Of the storage sites I know, only two is in the range of 25-50GB.
4Shared 15GB
Amazon Cloud 5GB
AT&T Locker 50GB
Box 10GB
Copy 15GB
Dropbox 2GB
ElephantDrive 2GB
Google Drive 15GB
iCloud 5GB
Mega 50GB
Mozy 2GB
OneDrive 7GB
Kim Dotcom seems to treat Mega as a hobby, so I don't trust it.
I used it once.
OwnCloud. It's The Solution to this problem.
I hate printers.
Woz spoke last year about this - how you should have your data, on your device, in your hand.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I cannot understand why there is such scant mention of OwnCloud in this thread. It is THE solution to the problem of needing Dropbox like functionality on a self-hosted server.
I hate printers.
It's fast, stable, mature and provides a boatload of the functionality you get from Dropbox and Google on a server that you host yourself. Get it, use it, love it.
I hate printers.
Or telnet if you're desperate. Simple.
Nurse! Patient calling himself 'anonymous coward' has complete break from reality again.
Remove all the Ubuntu One stuff installed by default:
apt-get remove deja-dup-backend-ubuntuone python-ubuntuone-client python-ubuntuone-control-panel python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol rhythmbox-ubuntuone ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-data ubuntuone-control-panel ubuntuone-control-panel-qt
And for good measure:
apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores
How much does M$ pay you to come to Slashdot?
I never used it. I'm not comfortable with anything 'in the cloud' so it doesn't matter whether their service was competing with something else or not, I just was not interested. So I won't miss it. I did buy a NAS box in the last 6 months (and I'd been looking at buying one for a long time), and it saved my hide just a month ago when a drive (500GB, 82% full) failed with (initially) 17 bad blocks, then 120 bad blocks the next day (when I ran ddrescue on it), and 643 bad blocks after finishing ddrescue. After that, I couldn't even format the thing. But the NAS was very useful.
To actually rest at ease in regards to my stored data, i want a solution that does redundant distribution of my data across 2 or more storage solutions - with something super cheap and slow like Amazon Glacier in the mix , with more than one paid service, and a physical backup of my own hard disks hooked to a local NAS box as well.
And i want an option for self-hosting the front-end too.
So if something like Ubuntu pulls the plug, gets too expensive, fucks up their client, i dont have to worry about migrating my data or changing my workflows.
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I'm curious, or maybe just ignorant, why the open source community does not already have a mature, widespread file storage application that is peer to peer, like BitTorrent Sync. Maybe because peer to peer is so much harder than client-server. But I would have thought it would be further along by now, given our:
- technical savvy
- awareness of the importance of good back-ups
- distrust of corporations and governments
If we had a free file back-up service that was standard for Linux (or if there were two or three, for the sake of competition, but that at least each distro had one that it picked as its standard), then I think it would help Linux catch on as well as improve the sense of community: I'm helping host some of your data, you're hosting some of mine --- even though I have no idea what or whose it is because I have just a bunch of encrypted shards.
Learn to use rsync over ssh.
What's the server's hostname?
So how do you "transfers efficiently between your machines" if only one of said machines is turned on at once? Or if some of them are behind carrier-grade NAT and you aren't renting a VPS?
bot-cloud.net
nc was made obsolete with shell network pipes years ago
I created an online service to show everyone else what I chose to use:
Because every time I choose something it dies a horrible death.
My LS-120 Drive
My barely Pre-HD Digital Camcorder
So just don't choose what I choose and you will be fine.
Oh and that service, yeah they closed that down to, so never mind.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
NSA cloud is prepaid with international trade treaties and domestic income tax
Awe, damn. I had my free cloud hosting totally full too! I don't like or really use Ubuntu, but I have to test some of my cross platform software with it, but Ubuntu One seemed to be pretty good at what I used it for. I hope I don't lose access to my mirror of /dev/urandom. Whatever shall I do?
I never trust the cloud services, especially not the free services. They are always destined to burn away under the bright rays of a profit-and-loss-statement sun.
I started suspecting Ubuntu One would hit hard times a while back. They weren't pushing it, weren't explanding the service and I was starting to worry it would go away. At the very least the fact the softwre had not been ported to other platforms worried me. At any rate, two months ago I set up an ownCloud server and moved all my files over to there. While ownCloud is not as slick and doesn't handle file conflicts as well as Ubuntu One, it does the job well enough and the software is under my control. Plus ownCloud is cross platform, and very flexible. I'm happy with the move.
Well, one of those things doesn't really happen anymore.
Which one? Home Internet customers still get put on CGNAT, especially in countries without a large allocation of IPv4 addresses.
And if only you could set your home computer to wake up
Wake on LAN for every incoming packet would cause the computer to never suspend, leading to the next issue:
or maybe even not to into suspend at all?
Then you'd notice it on your electric bill the next month. Or would the cost of non-CGNAT Internet and a non-suspend power management policy still add up to less than the cost to lease space on Dropbox?
No, I meant that Windows XP will leave support in a couple weeks, and all still-supported versions of Windows will have been offered an upgrade to IE 9 or later, which has a JavaScript JIT.
... ...
Spyware ...
I quite liked being able to buy albums, knowing that part of my purchase was going to support Ubuntu rather than apple. I wonder if sales fell off a cliff when they switched away from using a Rhythmbox plugin as an interface to buy music, and forced everyone to use a website that you have to log in to in order to BROWSE the music for sale. I guess sales were so low they couldn't justify paying even one business-and-tech-savvy person to make it successful.
Oh For F***s Sake, not this S**t again! Serves me right for finally succumbing to the cloudy temptation.
I refused to use any of the xxxxBoxes and AmazoGoogDrives that are so popular nowadays as I don't trust any of them. I held out until my wife installed "ubuntu one" on her phone last month and set it up so that whenever she took a picture on her phone the photo immediately appeared on my computer. Within a few days, my whole family started using it on their phones and computers.
Our mothers-in-law religiously check the albums on one.ubuntu.com every night too see all the new pictures of their grandchildren and now this! Never, I say, NEVER will I put my trust in these EEEEeeeeeevil clouds again!
It's a shame, as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is almost out and I was ready to give a try. I know a few people using 12.04, it dumbs you down and encourages a browser-only use (due to difficulty of finding any but the most basic installed apps), but is decent when used in that role.
Ubuntu One was maybe a good fit (and usable on other platforms too) and especially, I have no trust in other "cloud" stuff. I don't want google or microsoft stuff, and as for dropbox I don't know who they are, what laws they obey, who they give access to your files to (NSA? Law enforcement? Dictatorships?). I thought I would try Ubuntu One one day.. It's not stuff that should go out, right?, Ubuntu has been out there for about a decade, and Long Term Support meant everything is alright till april 2017? Well, no.
A stock standard internet access plan does fine, although doesn't give me static IP.
That depends on what country you live in. In some countries, apparently including yours, it's standard practice for home ISPs to give dynamic IPv4 addresses that are globally routable. In other countries, especially those late to widespread Internet deployment, it's common for home ISPs to use carrier-grade network address translation, in which the ISP's customers have IP addresses in 100.64/10, and the infrastructure translates those to a far smaller pool of IPv4 addresses at the border.
Even if your ISP happens not to put all customers behind a CGNAT, there can still be problems. Many ISPs forbid publicly visible servers in their terms of service for home customers, with varying level of enforcement, reportedly up through kicking the customer without refund and banning the customer from signing up again for years. Once both the local cable ISP and the local fiber or DSL ISP have kicked a customer, the customer is back to dial-up. A lot of home users would rather lease hosted storage than pay extra for business-class service at home. Another is that not all home users are willing to learn how to administer a Raspberry Pi server or how to punch a hole through a home NAT. You and I and most Slashdot regulars are exceptions.
We're helping migrate U1 users to any other storage provider for free. Since most of our infrastructure at Mover is running Ubuntu we think this is a great way to give back to the community and market ourselves at the same time. Hopefully this helps any Slashdot U1 users: https://blog.mover.io/2014/04/15/rescuing-ubuntu-one/