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<p style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Dear
Friends,</font></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">I
noticed queries appreared in this discussion forum about the
availability of Koha (3.x) windows version. Many
Library professionals like to see latest version of Koha work with
Windows. XAMPP
and EasyPHP with Windows are very popular among non techie librarians
due to its user friendliness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
cannot blame admirers of Windows OS. Windows arrived early in desktop
OS market and made popularity due to its user friendliness. As a
library professional, may I share one experience regarding the
inconsistency of Windows while using for the installation of library
management system like Koha. Virus attack and related vulnerabilities
make Windows operating system not suitable for production server
purpose. I installed Koha windows version more than four times in
this year for a school library in our city. The school Librarian is
one of my friend he is a non techie. His OS was Windows XP and
formatted the system every two month due to virus attack. In this
situation he could not enjoy the service of Koha. Last month I
installed Koha with Mint Linux (<a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/">www.</a></span></font><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>linuxmint</b></span></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">.com</span></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
erasing Windows in his system. After that, he has not complained
regarding virus and Koha run there well. Mint Linux provides good
user friendly interface. My friend work with Linux and Koha without
any difficulty. He is using the Linux based applications for his day
to day activities (word processing, net surfing etc). In my
experience Linux OS is more suitable for Koha. Majority of the
Library professionals are not familiar with Linux and therefore they
are not in a position to install Koha with Linux. I hope that Koha
Live CD is a good solution to this problem. Mizstik project
(<a href="http://mizstik.com/projects/koha-livecd/">http://mizstik.com/projects/koha-livecd/</a>)
is a good initiative to this direction. I hope that more Koha Live
CD's would develop on various Linux distributions and then
installation of Koha will not be a difficulty. </span></font>
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<p style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">My
request to library professionals is that, try to use Koha latest
version with Linux instead of trying previous Windows version (2.x).
If you are not familiar with Linux and Koha, try to attend Koha
workshop organize soon in your area and acquire the technical competency. </font>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vimal Kumar V.<br>Asst. Librarian<br>Asian School of Business<br>Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581<br>Web: <a href="http://www.vimalkumar.co.nr" target="_blank">www.vimalkumar.co.nr</a><br>Blog: <a href="http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in" target="_blank">http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in</a><br>
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