Amahi makes linux life much easier but I still need to become sort of an linux admin to really get things working, secure and stable, and I am just an inexperienced user.
Currently with windows8 and amahi 6 I regularly have issues with access to shares so I was considering going to amahi 7 that hopefully integrates better with windows 8, but many important apps are not live yet (crashplan being the most important one) So I had a look at other options.
In the past I used clarkconnect, rock solid but with very little features for home users. They have moved on, it's now clearos also uses apps like amahi does and I found this link in their forum
http://www.clearfoundation.com/componen ... /id,50859/
In my naive and ignorant opinion this is an invitation for a merger between clearos and amahi to develop amahi 8 on the clearos platform.So why hasn't a Home edition been launched? Resources and focus. The ClearCenter teams is focused on the commercial version and to spend time on Home just isn't in the cards right now - at least not on the scale of what it would take to put something really targeted towards home users like you've suggested and we all can envision.
We need someone in the Community to step up to the plate and manage this fork/project. It's not going to happen without a coordinated effort and coordination requires leadership. Over on the Contribs.org project/forum, a guy named John Crisp did just this for the SME server project. Self admittedly, he doesn't have skills in software development, but that's not what was needed to jump start the contribs project again, and a developer is not what is needed to oversee the roll-out of ClearOS Home Edition.
imo it could bring the best of both worlds.
What about this idea? is it possible? Am I overlooking something or perhaps something to consider?