I opened Google Mail on my HTC Magic this morning to find a lovely invitation to the Ubuntu One beta, woot. So I grabbed my shiny Sony Vaio laptop and fired it up, and got straight on with it. Essentially, Ubuntu One is just a sync to a remote network storage, so there shouldn’t be anything too complex about it. The login process is fairly straightforward. First you download their PPA, then the packages themselves; if you use Firefox this is made remarkably simple by just clicking the buttons on the installation web page. Once installed, you start the client, and this should bring up a web page to “Add your computer”. It didn’t do this first time on mine, and I had to manually do:
apt-get install ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-tools
to get it to work. Still, after that, it ran pretty smoothly and I’ve just synced up my first few files. As of yet I don’t really have a use for this sort of thing, but I expect backups of certain things would be useful. The free tier is a 2GB plan, or there’s a paid 10GB plan. Personally I’d prefer more storage if I were to use it but the 10GB is USD $10 so the amount of storage I’d need would I guess cost around $50 a month going on $1/GB.
Still, it’s a cool little feature and a welcome addition to my laptop, although as of yet I have no-one to share files with… I’ll figure out how to invite people if someone requests 
