Amahi 5.0
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Amahi 5.0 Release Notes
New features in Amahi 5.0 include:
- Available in many native languages: Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional), Dansk (Danish), Deutsch (German), Greek, English, Español (Spanish), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Korean, Nederlands (Dutch), two flavors of Norsk (Norwegian): Bokmål and Nynorsk, Polski (Polish), Português (Portuguese), Russian and Svenska (Swedish). Awesome job from the Amahi community!
- Based on Fedora 12, with
- Primary Domain Controller (PDC) support for Windows 7 (preliminary)
- Full support for a faster and more reliable file system (ext4)
- More hardware support and a lot of performance optimizations from networking to virtualization, to optimizations for Atom
- More secure: password protected setup pages
- Concept of Admin user. Setup pages are only available for admin users.
- 30% or more performance and memory improvements, courtesy of using passenger/mod_rails!
- Some internal improvements to make it easier to install and support Amahi on Ubuntu
- Separate Amahi and root mysql password for more modularity
- New and improved web based installer: no need to type commands any more to install Amahi
- Making networking simple: Automatic detection of network settings during install (yay!)
- Over 100 applications tested as working in Amahi 5.0
- Support for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems
New security features for the dashboard as well for the app login pages have been implemented for your family's data security and added safety. Unleash your network but not at the risk of your data! These new feature implementations not only augment your network's security but also help you retain and efficiently manage the networking and backup of all the computers, game consoles and other devices in your network, and securely access your network from the internet. That's just the start of what you'll be able to do with Amahi 5.0.
Known Issues
- The openvpn service displays [FAILED] while booting, however, this is due to a race condition when the service is already running. It's not causing major issues other than the cosmetic [FAILED] in red
- Windows 7 needs some registry hack to work with PDC. Details in PDC
- Users with other than all lowercase username are not created at the linux level!
