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Pre-conference: Open Source Installfest: Day 2

October 28th, 2006 by Christina Hennessey

Day 2 of the pre-conference was presented by Amy Begg De Groff and Luis Salazar of Howard Country Library (Md.). Amy and her IT staff of six (which includes Luis) have successfully switched their 279 public computers over to the “Groovix” operating system (www.groovix.com). Groovix is based on Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux [...]

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LITA Pre-conference: Open Source Installfest: Day 1

October 28th, 2006 by Christina Hennessey

Day 1 was presented by Gary Wan of the TAMU libraries. He showed about 20 of us how to install and configure the following library-relevant open-source products: Koha, Greenstone, Swish-e, and Wordpress.
First, he explained open-source and the LAMP platform. LAMP is the software bundle commonly used for OSS products. LAMP stands for: Linux (the operating [...]

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