[clue] Amahi

[Dennis J Perkins]

I decided to build a small home server for a number of reasons, such as ownCloud and movies.  I'm still buying parts.  I came across Amahi, which is a home server package that runs on Fedora and Ubuntu.  It has packages for Dokuwiki, Mediawiki, backups, VPN, ownCloud and movies.  It uses ReadyDLNA for streaming media and XBMC appears to be able to talk to it.  Maybe Raspberry Pi could be used with XBMC to connect them to Amahi for movies and videos.

Amahi does charge a fee for some packages.  I have mixed feelings about that, but the fee is small and helps pay for the website.

I don't know if I will keep Amahi but it looks like it might be a good solution for a couple of non-tech-savvy friends.  I haven't seen any other FLOSS software like this, unless you include FreeNAS but I think it's more limited.