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Open Source Solutions for Libraries?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-your-friendly-neighborhood-librarian dept.

rscrawford asks: "I'm a former web developer who's been playing with open source solutions wherever possible for just over a year, and now I'm on that obsessive track toward becoming a librarian. Now, I've seen a lot of library websites and catalog software packages that are MS-based; what open-source solutions are there for libraries, and where have you seen libraries using open-source technologies (like Linux) to solve problems?"

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  1. Mac OS X by CokeBear · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Its not quite open source, but its the next best thing. Use Mac OS X, and strike a blow at evil.

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  2. Distro Libraries by DA-MAN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are tons of libraries available for free, everything from GNU's awesome libc, to libpcap, to libpng are available in most distro's. If you need a library that isn't included in your distro, just download and compile. That usually works.

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