Back in 2004, Howard County Library in Columbia, MD rolled their own Linux and called it LuMix.
A couple years later they switched over to Groovix, a Ubuntu derivative (http://groovix.com).
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Edward Iglesias
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians
Sorry Daniel, just saw your post.
Edward Iglesias
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Edward Iglesias <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Once upon a time there was whitebox linux
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Box_Enterprise_Linux
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>
>
> Edward Iglesias
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Chudnov <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> For a number of years, White Box Linux [1][2] was supported by somebody
>> from the Beauregard Parish Library in Louisiana. He was a very interesting
>> guy who I met at ALA Annual in Chicago in 1999 or 2000. The project had a
>> healthy run but was effectively replaced by the larger community effort of
>> CentOS.
>>
>> I don't recall that it had anything particular to libraries in its
>> design, rather I'm pointing it out just because it was developed by a
>> library staff person (as you asked) and it struck a certain chord in the
>> broader community at the time. I know I got a few good years of use out of
>> it on several servers before switching to CentOS.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.beau.org/~jmorris/linux/whitebox/
>> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Box_Enterprise_Linux
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18 Oct 2014, at 20:08, Cornel Darden Jr. wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Every now and then I consider switching my main operating system. I've
>>> been using Ubuntu for years. Does anyone know of any Linux distros made by
>>> librarians or One that's most used by librarians?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Cornel Darden Jr.
>>> MSLIS
>>> Library Department Chair
>>> South Suburban College
>>> 7087052945
>>>
>>> "Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
>>> learning."
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>
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