It’s Independence Day for Amahi; Ubuntu Edition now live! July 3
We’re happy to announce the general release of Amahi 6.1, Ubuntu Edition! With a great team effort, this has become a reality! Get started!
This is Amahi’s first release of the Ubuntu edition, so we expected occasional turbulence. Meanwhile, we are hard at work creating a
graphical installer to make this installation of Amahi Ubuntu Edition easier.
The team has always been of the opinion that the expansion to new Linux distributions is great. Now Amahi runs on two of the most popular Linux distributions! We expect to continue supporting at least both distributions going forward.
One person that cares deeply is all it takes to make things happen in the open source world! In this case, a few developers contributed to make Amahi more amenable to running on Ubuntu. Many underestimated the complexity of the undertaking. Eventually, Frans (a.k.a. eFfeM, our team lead for Ubuntu) persisted long enough to align everything and everyone’s skills and push through in this true team effort!
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
For more details, release notes and known issues, check the Ubuntu wiki page. Experiment with Amahi Ubuntu Edition! If you break it, report it! The more bugs reported the smoother the eventual ride!
We are excited to have some support for ARM based systems! We’re revisiting the ARM architecture as it becomes more pervasive in our lives as cell phones, multimedia set top boxes and other automation conveniences. The ARM(v7) packages are available via Amahi’s Ubuntu repo. We strongly suggest a powerful ARM processor (such as omap4) and an external hard disk; SD booting is possible but sloow. Thanks also goes to open source startups and projects who are making ARM programming easily accessible to the younger generation.
Again, many thanks to the Ubuntu team, the Applications team, the Greyhole team, the testers, you who reported bugs and suggested improvements!
Happy installing and we hope you enjoy and share it with your friends via Facebook and Twitter!
The Amahi Team
PS: check out a (reduced) screenshot of the new Amahi look!