Amahi Ubuntu Edition Now Live

Amahi, the linux home server distribution and service recently announced the immediate availability of its 6.1 Ubuntu edition. Amahi has officially supported only Fedora until this release. This release is its first official Ubuntu edition. The Amahi web site describes some of the features:

Here are some of the features in Amahi 6.1, Ubuntu Edition (but not limited to):

  • Latest storage pooling technology with the latest Greyhole 0.9
  • Reliability fixes and updates, including a new, professionally designed, polished look (see at the end of this post)
  • Support for both the 32 & 64 bit Desktop and Server versions of Ubuntu
  • Improved cloud storage with Amahi Sync
  • Some support for ARM systems, like the PandaBoard and BeagleBoard (these are not well tested, so, expect rough seas)
  • One-Click App installs via Amahi’s application store

Amahi Ubuntu

This page has the Amahi features gallery which lists all the functions your Amahi home server can perform.

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Building an E-350 based NAS

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I came across a nice little post about building a NAS from scratch using an AMD E-350. The author decided to use Centos for the operating system:

In the beginning I was pondering whether to choose FreeNAS or CentOS. Both are probably good choices, but since I don’t consider ZFS as the holy grail of file systems and I’m a passionate Fedora user the final choice was the CentOS 6.2 minimal spin.

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