Dropbox: share files effortlessly anywhere and everywhere across Windows, Linux and Mac

Finally a cross platform storage solution that really works.



I've been patiently waiting for Google Drive / GDrive to come out since 2005. I've looked at various on-line storage offerings and they all fall short in one way or another. The first thing that I check under the features list, is to see that they support Linux. I've looked at Skydrive and Livedrive and they fail the Linux check miserably.

My typical work day involves using at least 3-4 different computers. Some are running Windows, others run Linux and some run inside a virtual machine via Virtualbox. Won't it be great to store important documents, screen prints, notes and other stuff that you need everyday in a central location that can be accessed by any operating system in any location. Well that utility is Dropbox.

Here is an YouTube video demonstrating Dropbox:



I've only been using Dropbox for a few weeks, but I can already tell it is changing the way I do things. I've tried this in Gnome, KDE4 and inside Virtualbox with no issues.

Dropbox is supported on x86 and x86_64 versions of Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 7.10, and Fedora Core 9. There have also been reports of users getting Dropbox to work on different versions of Gentoo, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE, and Debian. If you are having trouble getting Dropbox to run on your Linux system check if you have the following software dependencies installed:

• GTK 2.12 or higher
• GLib 2.14 or higher
• Nautilus 2.16 or higher
• Libnotify 0.4.4 or higher

If you are tired of carting files around on an USB stick or tired of configuring the host and guest os in Virtualbox to share files, this is your utility. If files are lost locally in a sudden hard drive crash, just reinstall Dropbox and your files are automatically synced back to your new hard drive. Sharing files with others is a snap and accessing your own files remotely is also just as easy with a web interface to your dropbox.