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- b04155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0maybe google already knows this and is part of the plan to make their virtual OS??? or so a rumor told me
- explainmycat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you aren't "mounting linux", you're mounting your gmail account as if it were a harddrive. no code is executed on google's servers ( apart from typical http requests, etc ). This is pretty misleading ( not to mention old ).
- xistboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How how cool!
- utch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0here is main page link http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0don't know much about it but it seems form that last comment "gmail drive" by ccrook; it would seem to me to kind of a fun way to store different files on gmail thats 1-2 gigs about. and i agree it is a neat idea not that it does me any good.
- Trepan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The link is dead. anyone have a mirror?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok, ok, let's be clear that you won't be running linux from your gmail account that's just BS, now what you will do is mount remote "drive" on your system, but hey remember not to put anything "personal" because you don't "own" the file system, remember the "do no evil" motto at google are just words. On the down side Python?, cmon' Python is just a joke, yes is interesting object oriented and such but hey PERL is the king for web development and UNIX scripts. Sorry to the 3 Python users out there who are offended by this post.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hm. this is about useless. just like everything that people install linux on that isnt a hard drive in their pc.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just in case I said sorry to the Python users.
Second I think Python IS elitist, just because there is an elite of Python users than a COMMUNITY of PERL users, is these are not merits I don't know what else can be.
And BTW I didn't declare PYTHON sucks or dead to PYTHON, just think that PERL is mature and universal enough to spread an application to a whole community than just a few that chose that path. - ccrook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, you all seem to have missed the part about the chroot /mnt/gmail
in which case your / would now be a gmail drive.
it's interesting. - mutant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"python is a joke"?? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.. "PERL" is king? Hokay..
I'll just let your statements stand on thier own merits.. What there are of them. - ChaosElement, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn linux geeks. What will they think of next?
- fishopolis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old News Meh....
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Mountable_Linux_File_System_Using_GmailFS_and_Your_Gmail_Account - Slavakion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"On the down side Python?, cmon' Python is just a joke, yes is interesting object oriented and such but hey PERL is the king for web development and UNIX scripts. Sorry to the 3 Python users out there who are offended by this post."
Wow, way to be an elitist snob. Should I now point and laugh because you don't use lisp, the god of all programming languages? - utch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haven't tried it yet... but crazy cool idea
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