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. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White
Greetings, Though I agree Live CD/DVDs make for an easier workshop, I do not believe it is the best option for a production system. That aside... Here is the point I wanted to address. Vimal Kumar V. wrote:
But I could not develop a live cd based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS due to its incompatibility with Remastersys.
"Starting 3.0.2-1 included is support for Ubuntu 12.04." http://www.remastersys.com/ubuntu.html "Remastersys 3.0.2-1 released supporting Ubuntu Lucid up to Precise " (April 28, 2012) http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=2219.0 Are you sure this is still true? GPML, Mark Tompsett
It is high time to think about the development of an official live cd/dvd from Koha team.
If someone wants to be the maker of the official live CD/DVD all it takes is for them to make a commitment to do so for every release. The major problem with live CD/DVDs, as I understand it, is that they get out of date very quickly. If someone wants to release CDs, they need to be ready to do it for every release. It's not possible in a project like this to say "someone should do this." You either have to do it yourself, or you have to fund someone to do it for you. The things we find important to do we find a way to get done. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Vimal Kumar V. wrote:
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.
Would you be willing to join the Koha team as CD/DVD release manager?
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/
This is great work. When will the current stable Koha (3.8.5) be available? Is it possible to install the live system to the hard disk when the user is ready to commit to it, or do they need to export the data and import it to a new installation? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
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