SOLVED: Applications
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:17 pm
I have been an Amahi user for a couple of years now and one of the things I find profoundly disappointing about the system is the slow progress of application availability. I can't count the number of times I have searched for an app to do something and found just the thing to find it is in "beta" for my version of Amahi. At first I thought I will just wait for them to finish with it, then I realized "they" might never do so. I upgraded to version 7 of Amahi because it was supposed to be faster and better, but now I can't have Transmission or Couchpatato because they're still in beta for Fedora 21.
I'm a software developer and I don't mind a few bugs in my software if I am forewarned, and I don't mind writing detailed bug reports (I'm irritatingly good at it) so I thought, ok I'll sign up for the testers program. No dice, the program is closed.
So the only option to get reasonable access to software is to pay monthly for access to beta software and I am not going to do that. I don't mind buying reasonably priced software. I have bought a couple of apps from Amahi and have been happy with the results. But I won't sign up to pay anybody monthly for software, I'll buy it, but I won't rent it.
So, I have set up additional virtual machines to run software I could have run on Amahi, except it was in beta. Mostly I use Amahi as a file server; Greyhole is great. But I was hoping for so much more.
Gene
I'm a software developer and I don't mind a few bugs in my software if I am forewarned, and I don't mind writing detailed bug reports (I'm irritatingly good at it) so I thought, ok I'll sign up for the testers program. No dice, the program is closed.
So the only option to get reasonable access to software is to pay monthly for access to beta software and I am not going to do that. I don't mind buying reasonably priced software. I have bought a couple of apps from Amahi and have been happy with the results. But I won't sign up to pay anybody monthly for software, I'll buy it, but I won't rent it.
So, I have set up additional virtual machines to run software I could have run on Amahi, except it was in beta. Mostly I use Amahi as a file server; Greyhole is great. But I was hoping for so much more.
Gene