[ubuntu-za] Library Software

[Andre Hugo]

Firstly thanks to everybody that responded to the email.

Seems to me that there are 2 major players, Koha and Evergreen. Both were
originally developed for debian.

I found this ppt file that compares Koha, Evergreen and Voyager
http://valenews.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/opacs.ppt

With the ppt, installation process and paid support in mind,
the decision was to go with Koha. I have made contact with
Sabinet.co.za but they need more detail of the current setup to give
me a quotation.
So that will have to wait until after the school holiday.
Would be nice to have support if it is not to expensive.

Koha:

The install documentation on the website www.koha.org and the README file
was really confusing.

I did find this guide and got Koha up and running.

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Lucid_using_Koha_packages

Posting my success to twitter, I got an reply from
@libriotech<gwibber:/user?acct=4ab05274b74611dfbac700248ccb1d87&name=libriotech>
 He pointed me to the following:

A Virtual Image of Koha with demo data.
http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha/koha-virtual-appliance/

And a "Koha Distro"
http://mizstik.com/projects/2010/03/koha-live-cd-release-4/ I installed this
into Virtualbox to try it out. The installation process was a breeze.
Nothing more than installing Ubuntu. Great solution. Come the new school
term I will try to implement the system at the school and report back.

Regards
Andre



On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Fredre Hattingh
<hattingh.fredre at gmail.com>wrote:

> Or what do you recommend?
> > Regards
> > Andre
>
> Hi
>
> I listened to an interesting interview on FLOSS Weekly about the
> Evergreen Library System a while back. Here is the link
> http://twit.tv/floss132 . They also mention 1 or 2 other systems
>
> Regards
> Fredre
>
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