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well I guess thesedays theres a group of people who try running linux on any new hardware thats out or some piece of new technology. I thought it would be worth sharing with you guys the fact that people actually got linux on the free Gmail thing.

The link is.

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000990039809/

If anyone of you get this working please let me know or get a better tutorial up?

o_O nice one From what i understood You can mount your gmail account as a drive to your linux box. But you can just use gmail drive firefox extension

it is not "installing linux on gmail"

Your mounting your gmail acount as a filesystem on an alredy existing linux system.

All of the "Files" are stored as attachments in your gmail account.

Also gmail does not like people doing this. It does go against the useage agreement.

Work! It's like a remote HD. You can use also from windows with Gmail Shell Extension @ http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

At one time a programmer wrote a filesharing service for gmail, but I think google fixed their hole in gmail.

Gmail Shell Extension work also for file sharing but still works

i tryed that on my windows, i mean its stupid. This days how needs that storage when harddisks are so cheap
but its fun to try