Comments on: Ubuntu Coming to Amahi Home Server?

By: mwm341

mwm341 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:49:41 +0000

Is there a good way to stuff Amahi into a DNS-323?

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:48:07 +0000

Bring it on! Well said Joe.

And, just purchased Dell Latitude 2100 netbook with Ubuntu 9.04 pre-installed, perfect, a great performing machine, highly recommended. With Ubuntu on the desktop for three years, and now this netbook, the best hassle-free computing experience I have had. No exaggeration.

By: Scotty Bones

Scotty Bones — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:47:00 +0000

@Mark
I’m just the opposite from you. I could give a crap about Fedora. I run Ubuntu on my notebook and Mint on my desktop with another system soon to be migrated from XP to Ubuntu. From my stand point, I would prefer to stick with a Debian based system for the simple reason of consistency across all systems. I do maintain my own local repos for Ubuntu. From the short description of Amahi from above; It would seem that it does basically everything I need for home use. If this simplifies the setup process of getting a system up and running, then I welcome it. And would love to give it a shot on my server to replace 2008 after I graduate. Of course that wont stop me from starting testing in a VM now! The more support we have or doing things the easy way, the better. I for one appreciate their consideration and effort.

By: Quint Pease

Quint Pease — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:32:52 +0000

I am currently trying to install Amahi with the Fedora 10 DVD and I keep getting errors (frustrating!). In the past, when trying to find the “perfect” Linux distro, I tried Fedora, but was always frustrated with how slow it was on low-memory, older machines. An Amahi that runs on Ubuntu 9.04 would be great since this distro comes close to perfect in my experience. If I get one more error with Fedora I’ll wait until the Ubuntu version.

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:43 +0000

Jef, Mark: I realize Amahi already runs on Fedora. But WorksWithU tracks Ubuntu, so it’s natural for us to blog about the Amahi-Ubuntu connection.

By: Mark Perillany

Mark Perillany — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:21:28 +0000

Why not just install linux and install all the server apps yourself. Sure it looks like they have some fluff in there, but you could do the same thing with software already available. Or why not just download it and install it in Ubuntu.

I don’t really care if they support ubuntu anyway, I’d rather be running fedora.

By: TF

TF — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:31:02 +0000

@Jef The story here is that Amahi has been asked time and again to support Ubuntu. Amahi has officially kicked off a project to support Ubuntu.

Of course, in reading the forums there have been many “truly experienced” developers who have offered to help without reply from Amahi. It appears that because Ubuntu makes it very simple to create a server with these apps at install time, there is not as much interest by Amahi to “reinvent the wheel”.

Amahi sees value in associating their successful project to another successful project, however because Fedora needs this more so than Ubuntu, I fully understand Fedora users/developers trying to use this to catch up to Ubuntu.

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:19:15 +0000

So what’s the story here? Amahi has had multiple releases already based on Fedora. Are you suggesting this page is out of date? http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Ubuntu

“There are frequent requests to make an Ubuntu version available – but to date there are not enough “truly experienced” Ubuntu developers ready to commit to make this happen. As developers get involved they realize that the underlying distribution does not impact the end user experience.

Since Amahi is designed to run headless there is little tangible benefit to port to Ubuntu as a very high priority – the development time is better spent improving Amahi while we gather real Ubuntu contributions.”

It appears that a porting effort is just getting started. In fact the rotating banner on the home page says they are looking for a lead Ubuntu developer. That doesn’t imply to me that this is going to be finished..soon.