[clue] Amahi

Chris Fedde chris at fedde.us
Mon Jan 6 09:27:59 MST 2014


I always thought it was "No Such Agency".   Oh well.  Learn something new
every day.


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net>wrote:

> BTW, I think arkOS is really aimed more at the "de-clouding" movement
> and making that path easier for people that don't want to spend lots of
> time dinking around with computers. Maybe things like RAID would come
> along later, but they are less interesting to the project, I'd bet. I
> think they are more about decentralizing the web for security purposes
> on cheap hardware (pi targeted first).
>
> Although with No Such Amendment working towards (or already having?)
> quantum computing, it might not be all the relevant:
>
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/hard_targets/
>
> ...although no one here would be all that surprised by this
> "revelation", I bet. There are probably still reasons to de-cloud
> regardless, even if No Such Amendment is reading everything regardless
> of crypto.
>
> On 12/25/13 8:32 PM, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > Very interesting but I think it's not quite what I want.  I want RAID,
> for one thing.
> >
> > I wonder how responsive Arkos is under load?
> >
> > On Dec 25, 2013 5:59 PM, Dennis J Perkins <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >> I never heard of it but I'll take a look.  Thanks.
> >>
> >> On Dec 25, 2013 2:22 PM, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>> Have you checked out arkOS? I haven't had the chance yet, but it keeps
> getting lots of chatter on Diaspora...
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 25, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Dennis J Perkins <
> dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
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