Comments on: Amahi reviews: the good, the bad and the ugly! http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ The Amahi Home Server. For the Power User in You. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: cpg http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-785845 cpg Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:17:28 +0000 http://blog.amahi.org/?p=1619#comment-785845 @Ted: Thanks for the kudos. We're working to bring more goodies into the platform! We have started to tack a small fee to some apps to fund Amahi in a way that works with the community. @Ted: Thanks for the kudos. We’re working to bring more goodies into the platform! We have started to tack a small fee to some apps to fund Amahi in a way that works with the community.

]]> By: Ted Trujillo http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-782701 Ted Trujillo Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:40:21 +0000 http://blog.amahi.org/?p=1619#comment-782701 Well I started with WHS and was very disappointed. First off it worked well with the higher end Windows products, like Xp pro, vista pro etc. I had a real nightmare trying to hook up xp home and vista. I understand this is fixed now not sure. Also after a few months WHS kept crashing my system and became a real pain. So I tried Amahi, and fell in love. my Linux boxes and MY MAC computers linked right up and have never failed to this day, my Amahi server has v\been online now for about 6 months without a hiccup. Love the program, did I mention it was FREE? Oh and I can schedule my backups as I want every three days is enough for me. Thanks Amahi for my very useful and bulletproof home media server and back up storage. Well I started with WHS and was very disappointed. First off it worked well with the higher end Windows products, like Xp pro, vista pro etc. I had a real nightmare trying to hook up xp home and vista. I understand this is fixed now not sure. Also after a few months WHS kept crashing my system and became a real pain. So I tried Amahi, and fell in love. my Linux boxes and MY MAC computers linked right up and have never failed to this day, my Amahi server has v\been online now for about 6 months without a hiccup. Love the program, did I mention it was FREE? Oh and I can schedule my backups as I want every three days is enough for me. Thanks Amahi for my very useful and bulletproof home media server and back up storage.

]]> By: Datahaunt http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-505195 Datahaunt Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:50:44 +0000 http://blog.amahi.org/?p=1619#comment-505195 Are you kidding? Amahi better than MS home server? What a joke. I love using Linux or BSD where I can instead of MS products, but it really upsets me to have to waste time with a Linux product to find out that it is SNL software; Not yet ready for prime time. First of all, Amahi still uses a dated version of Linux; Fedora 12. Secondly, they Use Fedora 12 as a base. Fedora as far as Linux disrtos goes is crap. I can pick nearly any other common distros to build a 90% system and install the most common of apps and have it work. Not so with Fedora. Even some of the most common apps fail to load on fedora. Let me give you an example of why Fedora sucks so hard and why Amahi knows this. With nearly any other distro, I can simply add a repository and then load the app and the dependencies. Not so with Fedora. In order to install Amahi, you have to do so during installation. If you try with a 12 distro already installed, it keeps asking over and over again for root credentials due to the untrusted nature of the Amahi repo. Sad to begin with that you have to go through such problems to simply add Amahi to the repo list to begin with. Again, Fedora sucks. Even after getting Amahi to load and installing applications, Amahi is not ready to work. It works fine via local access but from a client system, it fails. Amahi uses a “home.com” address. Now they are either too stupid to realize or just too lazy to note that the “Home.com” is owned by a spammer site. Using the IP address would make more sense but Amahi does not resolve using the IP address. This means I would have to alter my local systems and/or routers to get it to resolved the FQDN to the right local IP address. Again, SNL software. Then there is the fact that Amahi stubbornly uses an IP address that most routers do not use; the sub 100 non routable 192 address range. This is a reoccurring reason why so many of the Linux OS distros and related apps are seen as SNL software by so many. You want to compete with MS products? Then make your software work as well and be as easy to use. If you cannot, then stop complaining when people reject such poorly written code for something that actually does what it claims it can do without having to edit file after file using sudo. Are you kidding? Amahi better than MS home server? What a joke. I love using Linux or BSD where I can instead of MS products, but it really upsets me to have to waste time with a Linux product to find out that it is SNL software; Not yet ready for prime time.

First of all, Amahi still uses a dated version of Linux; Fedora 12.

Secondly, they Use Fedora 12 as a base. Fedora as far as Linux disrtos goes is crap. I can pick nearly any other common distros to build a 90% system and install the most common of apps and have it work. Not so with Fedora. Even some of the most common apps fail to load on fedora.

Let me give you an example of why Fedora sucks so hard and why Amahi knows this. With nearly any other distro, I can simply add a repository and then load the app and the dependencies. Not so with Fedora. In order to install Amahi, you have to do so during installation. If you try with a 12 distro already installed, it keeps asking over and over again for root credentials due to the untrusted nature of the Amahi repo. Sad to begin with that you have to go through such problems to simply add Amahi to the repo list to begin with.

Again, Fedora sucks.

Even after getting Amahi to load and installing applications, Amahi is not ready to work. It works fine via local access but from a client system, it fails. Amahi uses a “home.com” address. Now they are either too stupid to realize or just too lazy to note that the “Home.com” is owned by a spammer site. Using the IP address would make more sense but Amahi does not resolve using the IP address.

This means I would have to alter my local systems and/or routers to get it to resolved the FQDN to the right local IP address. Again, SNL software.

Then there is the fact that Amahi stubbornly uses an IP address that most routers do not use; the sub 100 non routable 192 address range.

This is a reoccurring reason why so many of the Linux OS distros and related apps are seen as SNL software by so many.

You want to compete with MS products? Then make your software work as well and be as easy to use.

If you cannot, then stop complaining when people reject such poorly written code for something that actually does what it claims it can do without having to edit file after file using sudo.

]]> By: kim http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-68389 kim Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:04:21 +0000 http://blog.amahi.org/?p=1619#comment-68389 I love it! I love it!

]]> By: El Di Pablo http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-28029 El Di Pablo Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:21:15 +0000 http://blog.amahi.org/?p=1619#comment-28029 Thanks for the link love! -EDP Thanks for the link love!

-EDP

]]> By: Luke http://blog.amahi.org/2009/10/20/amahi-reviews-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-27989 Luke Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:02:46 +0000 http://blog.amahi.org/?p=1619#comment-27989 I'd just like to say many thanks for adding my review of Amahi to your blog. I hope readers will enjoy the piece and try out Amahi. I’d just like to say many thanks for adding my review of Amahi to your blog.

I hope readers will enjoy the piece and try out Amahi.

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