Howard County Library Migrates to Open Source
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| The Howard County Library in Columbia, Maryland has successfully
| deployed Groovix on 284 customer computers. Groovix provides a
| Public Access computing software that turns any computer into a
| secure public workstation. The Groovix desktop environment is
| based on Ubuntu Linux.
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| Because of their success, I have a feeling they may become the
| beacon light, guiding other libraries across the country on the
| same route.
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http://www.linuxwins.com/?p=122
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Ubuntu @ the Library
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| I installed Ubuntu because I was fed up with all the different OSes
| on the library computers. It was easy, and a little fun.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIrxuF5NSo
Librarians stake their future on open source
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| It's written in C, JavaScript and Perl, is GPLed, runs on Linux with
| Apache, uses a PostgreSQL database, Jabber for messaging and XUL
| as client-side software. The system allows easy clustering and is
| based entirely on open protocols.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/12/04/1538214.shtml?tid=101
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