"Mount Your iDisk on a Linux Host
These instructions apply to recent distros / versions of Ubuntu, but should work on any *nix system that has davfs support.
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"The Purely Functional Linux Distribution
NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages."
If you feel that your Att U-verse or other ISP is painfully slow: manually change your DNS settings. Go to /etc/resolv.conf or make '/etc/resolv.conf.head' file, which will apply any changes to the top of the resolv.conf file. (a tail file is also possible).