Viktor, That's an awesome and helpful answer. đ Thank you sir. I look forward to getting our community Koha installation underway. I just needed to get this question out. And I've learned a few things in the process. Happy weekend everyone. Jesse Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 1100 16th St, NW Washington, DC 20036 On Dec 5, 2014 3:45 AM, <Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se> wrote:
The biggest practical problem that you might run into is of course that there is only one vendor for the LibLime fork so they can name any price they want to fix bugs that you find. Even if it does seem they actualy have a public Git repository for their fork these days you will have a very hard time finding anyone working with Koha willing to touch that code.
As for reusing your understanding of Koha with the LibLime fork I think you will have no problem moving around the system. A look at their demos tells me that their fork is still very clearly based on Koha as it existed at the time of the fork. But then again there have been many years of separate development so the two systems will differ greatly in workflow, functionality (and bugs) as you move past the basics. The two products is the same in much the same way as âMicrosoft officeâ and âLibreOfficeâ and âOpen Officeâ is the same. They aspire to solve the same needs and have a similar name. And as with LibreOffice and OpenOffice they even share a common ancestry but they are all still very different things.
I do think itâs very unfortunate that LibLime is still using the Koha name and touting the virtues of open source. But thatâs another story. As for using Koha or the LibLime fork of it Iâd go for Koha any second - but thanks for asking the question. The question of âI wonder if LibLime put some sweet stuff in their forkâ have been in the back of my head for years, but looking at their demos and a look at their Git repo (albeit a quick one) left me joyfully and thoroughly unimpressed ;)
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4 dec 2014 kl. 22:00 skrev Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson@sqcc.org>:
Hello everyone,
We are about to set up our servers and technical services for our library here at the Cultural Center.
Changing offices and events have kept us very busy.
But I was looking at the LibLime "version" of Koha and wondered, out of curiosity, what problems I might run into if I installed their version instead of the current stable version as hosted on the community wiki.
Just curious if anyone has run into any issues that might pop up in this instance or if the installation and upgrading process would all be the same.
Thanks in advance,
Jesse
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