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Quick update on Linux support. Dropbox now officially supports Ubuntu 8.10 :-). The latest release (0.6.416) resolves the last of the Intrepid specific issues we know of. The Intrepid repository up and running and ready to add to your apt sources:

deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main

For those of you not running Ubuntu or Fedora, the latest dropbox nautilus source is (as always) available for compilation on your distro of choice here.

Enjoy!

DropbugzNovember 3

We’re always amazed by the creative ways people find to use Dropbox, so as coders, this one struck as particularly awesome. Instructions shamelessly stolen from a Dropbox user :).

Being a tiny startup looking for ways to save money, we discovered the best, cheapest bug tracking software out there. It’s dropbox (or dropbugz). Simply make a folder called “bugs” in your dropbox and put a “done” directory in it.-Each bug is a .txt file whose name is the description of the bug.

-Dropbox keeps track of who creates / edits files so if someone botches a description you can always figure out who wrote it up and when. (Unix does a decent job of this too.)

-You can assign bugs by putting “#fixer_name” at the top of the file and grepping for “#fixer_name” on the command line.

-When bugs are done you move them to the “done” folder. If you duplicate a title it overwrites, but dropbox has your back w/ revision edits.

-You can preform any sort of command line voodoo to slice and dice your bugs.

-You know when bugs are posted or fixed through the dropbox notifications.

-You never have to leave the command line and go to a web app to enter bugs. The result for us is that we enter more bugs.

-You can casually browse your bugs using the preview feature on mac:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/147719/bugs.jpg

We didn’t have the money f

On Giants, Oscilloscopes, and DreamsOctober 15

Wow! What a crazy couple of weeks this has been. Some of you may not know me. My name is Michael Nagy, and I’m a geek. I’m a stone cold, dyed in the wool geek. I’m an “I played with an oscilloscope as a child” geek. I stumbled across Dropbox when it hit Digg, and signed up for the beta. When I eventually got invited, I knew I had found something cool. When I started talking to the Dropboxers I knew I had found something special. Fast forward around 3000 forum posts and many client/service updates later, and I was invited to come to San Francisco to attend the Dropbox launch party, and how could I say no?

10/2
So my wife Caroline, and children Ethan and Emily, trustingly followed me on my cross country caravan from Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco. When we landed, I realized that Jon Y had no idea what I looked like, and that I had neglected to get his cell number. Fate stepped in. Jon remembered me mentioning that my son was tall, and apparently the 4 of us with Ethan at 6′6″ tall was enough to clue Jon as to who we were. We headed off to the hotel then headed off to meet the rest of the Dropboxers. The Dropbox office has all the things you expect in a high tech office, big LCD flat panels, a ping pong table, and most importantly, a room dedicated to Rock Band.

10/3
Friday was tourist day for us, and San Francisco was a blast. Friday night I headed back to the Dropbox office, and found a good chunk of th

Dropbox launches to the public!September 11

It’s been a wild, almost two-year ride.

It started in Boston’s South Station in November 2006 where one night, while waiting for the Chinatown bus to New York, I wrote the first lines of code of what eventually became Dropbox. I had forgotten my USB drive at home and was frustrated that I couldn’t get any “real work” done.

Arash joined shortly thereafter, and we set up shop in Cambridge for the Y Combinator program. That summer is worthy of many blog posts, but we have countless fond memories of coding like crazy and setting our own hours (”the sun’s come up again, we really should go home, no really…”)

Our office sublet had “personality.” When we arrived, our little room was bare except for a framed portrait of a donkey, and a whiteboard which permanently bore the vestiges of some earlier startup’s plan for world domination, no matter how many times we scrubbed it. And the entryway always smelled “interesting”, to put it delicately.

Fast forward to today. We’re in San Francisco; we’ve got a beautiful office and comfy chairs. There are few visible remnants of our humble beginnings, but the spirit remains the same. In the meantime, we’ve built an amazing team, work with fantastic investors, and most importantly have been fortunate enough to have tens o

The Dropbox Poets Society - Part 1July 9

It began with one limerick. The world would never be the same.

As some of you may know, we’ve released the alpha version of our Linux client to a small handful of people for testing. Instead of just sticking to a conventional lottery, we decided to have a little fun with our second wave of invites. Since Dropbox has been in existence, it has become apparent that many of our users are poetically talented. It was time to put their skills to the test. Here were the initial rules:

Write a haiku ( first line: 5 syllables, second line: 7, third line: 5) explaining why you deserve a chance to test the client before everyone else.

an example of a haiku:

angry linux hordes
bombard my e-mail box
like zombies on crack

creativity and odes to my dashing good looks score brownie points. good luck!

And here are a few of our favorites:

What’s that, linux man?
rsync got you down? that’s sad
I can has dropbox?
- Adam H.

Freedom from dual boot
Calls out to me from the cloud
Linux soon flies, too.
- David H.

The dropbox motto
is incredibly simple
die vile thumbdrive die
- Michael N.

Dropbox I want you!
Together we will run free
Probably too late

I am not too proud
to beg, grovel, cry and sob