My +1 to Vimal. A live CD/DVD is the best solution for testing Koha, leave a simple installation to new users for evaluation, and so on. Stefano
> Dear Friends, > > Live CD/DVDs are essential part of any Free software project. > We can find that Live CD/DVDs are available in many popular Free software > projects like Dspace and Eprints. > Live CD/DVDs are easy to try and install for non techies. Manual > installation of Koha is difficult process for most of library professionals. > In the present situation, Koha project has not released official Live > CD/DVD. It is high time to think about the development of an official live > cd/dvd from Koha team. > In my experience, popularity of Koha increased in India after the > availability of live cd/dvd. Organising Koha workshops are now easy with > Koha Live cd/dvd. Installation of Koha by participants in workshops ate > good part of the time. Now participants can try Koha at home or workplace > after the workshop without much effort. > > I had created a live cd and dvd based on Ubuntu 10.04 with the help of > Remastersys. > https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivecd-lite > https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd/ > > But I could not develop a live cd based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS due to its > incompatibility with Remastersys. > Lot of other live cd/dvds are available and useful for community; library > professsionals, LIS teachers, students and research scholars. > I request Koha community and developers should think about the release of > official Koha Live CD/DVD. > Then only we can achieve uniformity in Koha Live CD/DVD development and > release. > > Regards, > -- > Vimal Kumar V. __________________________________________________ Il tuo 5x1000 al Patronato di San Girolamo della Carita' e' un gesto semplice ma di grande valore. Una tua firma aiutera' i sacerdoti ad essere piu' vicini alle esigenze di tutti noi. Aiutaci a formare sacerdoti e seminaristi provenienti dai 5 continenti indicando nella dichiarazione dei redditi il codice fiscale 97023980580. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
