http://blog.amahi.org The Amahi Linux Home Server. For the Power User in You Fri, 09 May 2008 18:53:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have some quick Amahi Linux Home Server updates: Version 0.88 of the platform software, with new and improved support for themes, not only in the dashboard, set up and platform screens, but also incorporates a "theme server" for other apps, so that changing the theme in the platform settings can ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/05/09/amahi-updates-uniform-themes-in-apps-calendar/ We could simply not help it but add support for MediaRSS, and by extension for PicLens, a spectacular client for MediaRSS (and more) to our Amahi SlideShow app the moment we saw PicLens in action! Here is a screenshot of the PicLens wall with some photos (click on the picture to ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/05/03/spectacular-slideshow-with-mediarsspiclens-support/ Here is a quick Amahi Linux Home Server update on new package releases. Some of it was to improve on the out of the box experience, and some of it is for overall stability and feature improvements. Version 2.3 of hdactl fixed creation of default samba shares (this has been a ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/05/02/amahi-updates/ Watching the home networking space is interesting. The whole space is exploding, many people approaching it in many different ways. We hope to have a good approach with the Amahi Linux Home Server. We wanted to recap a bit a few interesting links we have been gathering. Education on Home Networking One thing ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/04/25/home-networking-recap/ Trying to harden backup tools is hard. The reason is that there are so many possible configurations that may be used by the customer that it's impossible to test them all. We have been trying to chase down one particular issue, called "error 22", which happens occasionally when trying to back ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/04/19/hardening-pba-the-network-backup-tool/ A quick updates on the latest happenings around the Amahi Linux Home Server before talking about themes. We fixed one issue yesterday where some apps need to be reinstalled, otherwise they would crash. We still have the other issue where sometimes apps status gets out of step, and one app needs to ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/04/16/themes/ We've added a little structure to the FAQs page on the web site. The questions are now categorized so less sophisticated users can learn about certain areas by reading the FAQs in that category. If there are any particular questions you have, please comment, and we will add FAQs or respond ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/04/15/more-about-faqs/ In an attempt to "catch up" the apps to the Ruby on Rails 2.0 upgrade that we did not so long ago, we released today a new version of the recipes app. This version is all "jazzed up" to enter, search and display recipes in a very interactive fashion: Full blown ajax, ... http://blog.amahi.org/2008/04/15/a-few-updates-new-ajaxified-recipes-app-platform-updates/