Ubuntu One
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Ubuntu One Desktop client on Ubuntu 13.04
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| Developer(s) | Canonical Ltd. |
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| Initial release | May 13, 2009 |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system |
Ubuntu 9.10 – 13.10 Mac OS X 10.6 and higher Microsoft Windows iOS Linux Android |
| Platform |
Launchpad Ubuntu OS Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu One Ubuntu One Music Store Ubuntu Software Center |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Cloud service & single sign on service |
| License | Server-side: Proprietary Client-side: GPLv3 |
| Website | Formerly one.ubuntu.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 28, 2014) |
Ubuntu One is an OpenID-based single sign-on service operated by Canonical Ltd. to allow users to log onto many Canonical-owned Web sites. Until April 2014, Ubuntu One was also a file hosting service and music store that allowed users to store data "in the cloud".
The service enabled users to store files online and sync them between computers and mobile devices, as well as stream audio and music from cloud to mobile devices.
In April 2014, Canonical announced that the cloud storage and synchronization features would be shut down at the end of July 31 of 2014, leaving the sign-on features intact.
Ubuntu One had a client application that ran on Ubuntu 9.04 and later, Windows XP or newer, and Mac OS X 10.6 and higher. Other Linux distributions not running GNOME were supported through a console client. The source code is available through launchpad and can easily be compiled for other Unix-like operating systems such as FreeBSD. There was an Ubuntu One music app for iOS devices. A free Ubuntu One account offered 5 GB of storage.
The Ubuntu One service was similar to services such as Microsoft OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player. Its client code was written in Python. It used Twisted for its low-level networking and for protocol description. Data was synced over a custom protocol called "u1storage", and stored on Amazon S3.
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