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= Features =
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= Amahi 5.0 Release Notes =
 
New features in Amahi 5.0 include:
 
New features in Amahi 5.0 include:
  
# Brand new internal architecture (yeah, we know, very exciting)
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* 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!
# Major performance and memory improvements thanks to a new platform
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* Based on Fedora 12, with
# Users and admins are now set up automatically and setup pages are password protected
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** Primary Domain Controller (PDC) support for Windows 7 (preliminary)
# Brand new installer
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** Full support for a faster and more reliable file system (ext4)
# Better power management
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** More hardware support and a lot of performance optimizations from networking to virtualization, to optimizations for Atom
 
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* More secure: password protected setup pages
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* Concept of Admin user. Setup pages are only available for admin users.
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* 30% or more performance and memory improvements, courtesy of using passenger/mod_rails!
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* Some internal improvements to make it easier to install and support Amahi on Ubuntu
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* Separate Amahi and root mysql password for more modularity
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* New and improved web based installer: no need to type commands any more to install Amahi
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* Over 120 applications tested as working in Amahi 5.0
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* Support for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems
  
  

Revision as of 13:50, 8 December 2009

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
  • Over 120 applications tested as working in Amahi 5.0
  • Support for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems


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