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.sa...@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 ;) > > > Viktor Sarge > Utvecklingsledare > Regionbibliotek Halland > Kultur i Halland > > TFN: 035-17 98 73 > E-POST: viktor.sa...@regionhalland.se > BESĂKSADRESS: Södra vĂ€gen 9, 30180 Halmstad > WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek > > > 4 dec 2014 kl. 22:00 skrev Jesse Lambertson <jlambert...@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 > > > > > > > > -- > > Jesse A Lambertson > > Librarian > > Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center > > 1100 16th St, NW > > Washington, DC 20036 > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha