dhrandy

Amahi Home Server is a free alternative to Windows Home Server. It's Linux based and runs off of Fedora. I'm downloading Fedora right now and I'm going to give it a try. I'm all about free software alternatives. Has anyone else tried it out and have any comments about it? Here is some more info about Amahi.



Overview
The Amahi Linux Home Server makes your home networking simple. We like to call the Amahi servers HDAs, for "Home Digital Assistants." Each HDA delivers all the functionality you would want in a home server, while being as easy to use as a web browser.

The core functionality available in the base Amahi HDA install includes:

• Protect Your Computers Backup all your networked PCs simply and easily on your home network. If one of your PCs "dies" you can easily restore it!
• Organize Your Files Access, share and search your files from any machine on your network, making it easy to share and find your photos, music and videos.
• Internet Wide Access Automatically setup your own VPN so you can access your network from anywhere: safely and securely.
• Private Internet Applications Shared applications like calendaring, private wiki and more to come, will help you manage your home and your family!

Source
Amahi Home Page
Amahi Tour

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error10

Now that looks interesting! Might make a good alternative to WHS (and a very gentle introduction to Linux) for many people.

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uberjon

this sounds brilliant!

i love Fedora for my "geek moments" when i want to run *nix

im gonig to have to give this a try! *starts to backup the family pc and move them back onto the sempron and make the family pc the homeserver*

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equetefue

interesting.. rep+ for OP

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uberjon

i have successfully installed and configured amahi

im now listening to music right now off of my home server! (was showing off pictures earlier too!)

all in all im extremely happy with the ability to use it as a central location for my files! im going to go out on a limb here, but im gonna guess it can do things more "complex" than what im doing.. but what i need it suits me fine

thanks agan OP

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equetefue

You have screenies ?

Wonder how it compares to WHS.

Glad is that good, might give a try also.

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error10

I don't like the install procedure much, but the rest of it looks fine. All I need now is some cheap rig to turn into a home server.

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dhrandy

I would also like to see some screenshots. I'm tempted to dump my Windows Server 2008 and go with this.

The backup option sucks if you don't have Vista. Who would want to restart there PC just to back it up. The good news is there are many free backup software options.

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Drjuice164

I was turned onto this by error10, I should have a copy up and running within VMware whenever I get home. I will post back on what the outcome is.

MR_S4NDM4N

any updates on this??

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