Comments on: Welcome, Apple home server, Windows 7!

By: carlos

carlos — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:43:30 +0000

According to what we have looked at (see bug 282) it looks like Fedora 12 does have the proper Samba version (> 3.3.4) to support PDC on Windows 7.

We are talking about moving to Fedoda 12 and skipping Fedora 11 as a supported platform.

This is another reason

By: Fabian

Fabian — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:15:59 +0000

[..] Windows 7 works quite well with Amahi, we will show you how soon. [..]

Here’s to hoping that means Windows 7 PDC compability.

And yeah, Amahi is great.

By: bk

bk — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:39:20 +0000

I have to say, Amahi is the BEST home server on the market (per my review, hehe) and selling a home server for $1k is…well…ridiculous to say the least.

I tell you what, Apple has just released a new line of iMac’s, their new MacBook, and a new, faster Mini (not including the server here). So if your a Mini owner currently, and just think you “have to have” this “Mini Server”, do this for me:

1. Take that now slow and outdated Mini you have sitting in front of you, and turn THAT into your Amahi server, it will run Amahi LIKE A CHAMP.

2. Go out and buy yourself a NEW Mini, MacBook or iMac, and use that as a new desktop, save you some money and time. Oh and mind I add, you will get a lot more features with that “old mini” that is now a SERVER.

I am FAR from a Mac hater, but $1000 for a box without the ability to install what you want on it, and NO DVD DRIVE? I would NEVER buy it. Apple, in my opinion, has very nice hardware/software. But leave the server market up to Linux, and hell, even Microsoft (cough).

By: Muad'Dib

Muad'Dib — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:05:15 +0000

What he said. I’ve been running Amahi since I discovered it about 10 weeks ago. I went with it for a home server because it was brain dead simple to install (do a plain vanilla Fedora install and run one command after that). I liked that to use (administer) it I wouln’t have to master arcane details like I would have had to with OpenFiler or FreeNas. What keeps me a fan is all the cool apps you guys keep finding and adding. Amahi and the volunteers who run the project really rock.

By: pjcrux

pjcrux — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:53:21 +0000

I cannot begin to state how much I love Amahi. This is by far the best home server out there. Nothing fancy, nothing to administer. You install Linux and Amahi at the same time, pick which apps you want. And then… You walk away! no more having to administer updates or cycle times for maintenance.

We have people running on everything from P3, Dual Core Atom, Phenom; from 512MB to 8GB and beyond; 40GB HDD to RAID5 arrays.

It’s your network!! RECLAIM IT!!!