Comments on: Ubuntu One Rocking The House

By: Craig Laughlin

Craig Laughlin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:51:14 +0000

The only way I was able to get my evolution calendar to sync up with Ubuntu One was, I had to save my current calendar in the Ubuntu One folder. After I did that, I went back to evolution, and created a new calendar. I selected the custom options and selected my file that I had saved earlier in the Ubuntu One folder, and told it to update periodically. As for on the other computers for work and home, I just simply added a new calendar into evolution. and now I have synced calendars across all computers. it works great.

By: r4 ds games

r4 ds games — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:57:43 +0000

does Ubuntu have as good driver library as XP? Please provide information over it. Provide links to related topics if possible.

By: 6tricky9

6tricky9 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:06:20 +0000

I always had an uneasy feeling in the back of my mind that Mark Shuttleworth was intent on becoming the "Bill Gates" of the open source world; that he was planning to make his second fortune on the back of the FLOSS community. This is starting to become reality with the launch of the secret, proprietary, Ubuntu 1.

Both Neo and Jared above have highlighted the proprietary nature of Ubuntu 1 and the response has been a dismissive one. Indeed, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen even attempted, in the first instance, to deny this fact.

Furthermore, I thought that Jono Bacon was a champion of FLOSS development but it just goes to show how ideals can be tempered by a job at Canonical.

My advice to anybody who supports FLOSS is to boycott Ubuntu 1.

By: Fabian Rodriguez

Fabian Rodriguez — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:02 +0000

Unfortunately Ubuntu One requires NetworkManager (!): https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/357395

By: Isaiah Heyer

Isaiah Heyer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:24:28 +0000

How do you get shared files to appear on the desktop? I thought they always went into “~/Ubuntu One/Shared with Me/”.

By: bigbloke

bigbloke — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:26:57 +0000

I just wish karmic netbook remix worked properly with the stock atheros WIFI card in my pimped EEE900.

just tried replacing network manager with wicd and…doesnt work…nor can I regress….

so back to 9.04, then freeze my kernel at 2.6.28.11 – at least I had slow wifi then, better that than no wifi )

By: haxu

haxu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:15:52 +0000

my computer logs in automatically (i chose the corresponding option), and my passwords are the same..

By: Links 21/10/2009: Fedora 12 Beta is Out, Ubuntu Turns 5 and Gets IBM Support | Boycott Novell

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:12:32 +0000

[...] Ubuntu One Rocking The House Karmic is rocking, and Ubuntu One is just another great reason why. Good work, Ubuntu One folks! [...]

By: neo

neo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:35:12 +0000

Rodney Brown,

Not only the service but also the service side bits are entirely proprietary, just like landscape. I see a pattern there.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:32:50 +0000

Sorry, we haven't implemented automatic sync yet, but it's my top priority for Tomboy 1.2 (which will be available for Karmic through our official PPA when it's released in ~5 months).