Dear Fred and Lars,
>Let me echo what Lars said. Let's say I used the Live DVD to install our
>system (which I did). Provided that you:
> Change the passwords from the default to something more cryptic
> Update Xubuntu as needed (and the system is not shy about letting me know
> when new upd
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Live DVD
Den 28-05-2013 09:39, Mason Jame
Den 28-05-2013 09:39, Mason James skrev:
hi Folks
i think this topic still needs a little more discussion, so i added it to the
agenda of the next Koha meeting
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting,_5_June_2013
I was the one, who trickered this discussion - sorry ;-)
An
On 2013-05-23, at 1:11 AM, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote:
> Lars,
>
> Unfortunately they often give up, before they really get started. Therefore
>> I want to make the entry level as low as anyway possible. The live DVD is a
>> wonderful way to make more people use Koha. The people that I am dealing
Vimal,
I apologize if I gave the impression that I disapprove of your work.
That was not my intention.
I hope it came out in the discussion that neither myself nor others
(as far as I can see) object to a Live DVD as a great means for
certain purposes.
Reasons for and against the use of Live DVD
On 22 May 2013 23:22, BWS Johnson wrote:
> Salvete!
>
> I think it's a bit silly for developers to think that someone at a
> library with extremely limited resources will end up spending a tonne of time
> learning command line Debian linux to install from packages. I'm very
> grateful to Ro
Lars,
Unfortunately they often give up, before they really get started. Therefore
> I want to make the entry level as low as anyway possible. The live DVD is a
> wonderful way to make more people use Koha. The people that I am dealing
> with are typically having small school-libraries (with max 10
Den 22-05-2013 14:28, Owen Leonard skrev:
My goal in chiming in was to encourage the original poster to spend
his time learning how to get packages working rather than spend time
debugging problems with the Live DVD. I simply thought that if someone
is putting in effort to fix a technical probl
> I think it's even sillier for folks to jump on Vimal for crafting a very
> widely used
> tool that is incredibly appreciated and is a great contribution.
This is a mischaracterization of this thread. No one is criticizing
Vimal for creating the Live DVD.
My goal in chiming in was to encour
admirable.
Fred King
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
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Salvete!
I think it's a bit silly for developers to think that someone at a library
with extremely limited resources will end up spending a tonne of time learning
command line Debian linux to install from packages. I'm very grateful to Robin
for putting together the packages, since things a
Please email me the url for the latest live version please.
Ed#
In a message dated 5/21/2013 11:58:40 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
5...@gmx.de writes:
Vimal,
I tend to disagree. From what I get from people on mailing lists
that use the DVD is
- »I don't know anything about Linux«
-
Dear Friends,
We can leave unhealthy arguments on Live DVD.
We can submit the Official Live DVD to users, its their freedom to use for
what purpose.
They have freedom to accept or reject it.
I strongly believe that, Live DVD can provide an opportunity to try Koha
for newbies.
Please forgive me if
On 22 May 2013 21:29, Chrispin Simasiku Sitali wrote:
> Like I said before, after learning about Koha and linux using the Live DVD
> first Mizstik's *Koha Live* CD then Vimal Kumar's. After doing several
> installations and gaining enough confidence and experience I am able to
> install Koha in mo
Like I said before, after learning about Koha and linux using the Live DVD
first Mizstik's *Koha Live* CD then Vimal Kumar's. After doing several
installations and gaining enough confidence and experience I am able to
install Koha in most linux distros. I remember the embarrassment of asking
for a
Vimal,
I tend to disagree. From what I get from people on mailing lists
that use the DVD is
- »I don't know anything about Linux«
- »I don't have time to learn«
- »I want to run the system without basic knowledge about it«
Of course I do understand that librarians have other things to do
than lea
Dear Friends,
Developers / Linux techies view point manual installation is easy and
convenient.
In the case of a library professional, they have no Linux experience.
They need to familiar with Linux desktop. Live DVD can provide
familiarization.
It give more confidence in them. Later they can le
> You are probably right. The problem is that the potential users that I know
> of here, will often give up during the manual installation, so they will
> never get to any long run.
Instead of encouraging users to use the Live DVD we should encourage
them to take advantage of all the available onl
Den 21-05-2013 15:27, Owen Leonard skrev:
I'm not an installation expert, but based on what smarter people than
I have said, using the Live DVD instead of packages for production use
is a mistake for at least a couple of reasons: First, not many Koha
folks use the Live DVD, especially not the d
> my knowledge of Linux is growing but not sufficient to manage a full install
> from
> packages, so I'm using Vimar Kumal's Live-DVD to set up our system.
I'm not an installation expert, but based on what smarter people than
I have said, using the Live DVD instead of packages for production use
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