---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chrispin Simasiku Sitali <libsitali@gmail.com> Date: 22 May 2013 11:08 Subject: Re: [Koha] Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD To: Mirko <5p4m@gmx.de> sorry just hit the reply button without realizing that it was direct to you. I would love to share my experience with everyone On 22 May 2013 11:00, Mirko <5p4m@gmx.de> wrote:

Chrispin,

Chrispin Simasiku Sitali schrieb am 22.05.2013

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Well, to be honest I really benefited from Live DVD. I am a librarian who had no prior experience about linux. The live DVD assisted me a lot to learn about Koha itself and the internal plumbing of linux. I am a self taught koha and linux user. I remember at KohaCon12 in Edinburgh, Scotland asking MJ and Chris Cormack about the possibility of a Koha Lived at the conference. No, was the asnswer. Thanks to Mr Olugbenga Adara of Nigeria and to my own persistence I taught my self. So it was the Live DVD, the Koha mailing list and my own willingness to learn.

So if you ask me today, I am able to install Koha on a server with GUI or not, configure them properly for LAN or internet access and do training. I introduced Koha in all the teacher training colleges under the Ministry of Education, including the three new universities Nkrumah, Mukuba, NISTCOL and at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA),

I wouldn't strike the Live DVD off. Its a very nice tool to begin with, so please dont shoot it down!

thank you very much for sharing your positive experience! I'm happy that you were able to learn thanks to the Live DVD. I'd love to read more experiences like yours if people have them. :)

It is not my intention to shoot down the Live DVD. If it is used to actively learn your ways around the system (Koha and GNU/Linux) that is fantastic and exactly the way I would like to see it used.

What I consider problematic is to encourage its productive use as a long term option. Not only will it lead to outdated systems, but also to problems regarding community support, as it is not used by developers and there might be problems specific to the DVD. I would love to see Live DVD users teach themselves and later switch to a regular installation, but I am under the impression that this is more of an exeptional case than the rule.

I just realized that you answered offlist, so I will answer directly to you too in case you did not want to share your experience on the list. I encourage you to send it to the list though, so others can read it too. :)

-- Mirko

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