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Kiwix provides different technical solutions: | Kiwix provides different technical solutions: | ||
* '''kiwix''', a desktop application. You may install it on any computer with a screen. It runs on Windows, | * '''kiwix''', a desktop application. You may install it on any computer with a screen. It runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. This software provides a lot of features (bookmarks, content manager, ...) and is the most common used software. | ||
* '''[[kiwix-serve]]'''. a HTTP daemon application. You may run kiwix-serve on any computer (which could be without screen, like a server) and others computers (called clients) may access the content served by kiwix-serve through the network. Clients should only start a web browser, type the name or IP of the server to access the content. With kiwix-serve you can read the article and use the fulltext search engine, but it does not provide all the features of the Kiwix desktop application. Currently kiwix-serve only runs on Linux, but we will port it soon to Windows and Mac. | * '''[[kiwix-serve]]'''. a HTTP daemon application. You may run kiwix-serve on any computer (which could be without screen, like a server) and others computers (called clients) may access the content served by kiwix-serve through the network. Clients should only start a web browser, type the name or IP of the server to access the content. With kiwix-serve you can read the article and use the fulltext search engine, but it does not provide all the features of the Kiwix desktop application. Currently kiwix-serve only runs on Linux, but we will port it soon to Windows and Mac. | ||
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* '''Kiwix works without installation'''. You do not need to install it on the system (with administrator permission) to have a 100% working solution. Copy the data somewhere on the hard disk and it will work or if this is a Windows, run it directly from the DVD. The only advantages you will have by installing it, will to have it for all users having an account on the computer and have nice icons in the application menu or associated to the ZIM files. | * '''Kiwix works without installation'''. You do not need to install it on the system (with administrator permission) to have a 100% working solution. Copy the data somewhere on the hard disk and it will work or if this is a Windows, run it directly from the DVD. The only advantages you will have by installing it, will to have it for all users having an account on the computer and have nice icons in the application menu or associated to the ZIM files. | ||
* '''Take care to the computer OSes'''. OSes have their own restrictions and specifications. For example, it is not possible to have a portable version (everything running on a DVD/USB stick) with | * '''Take care to the computer OSes'''. OSes have their own restrictions and specifications. For example, it is not possible to have a portable version (everything running on a DVD/USB stick) with OS X, because for OS X, we only have a dmg file. On Linux, you can not really make a portable version because, removable storage are per default mounted with -noexe permission, so you will have to copy everything to the hard disk. | ||
* '''On GNU/Linux, this is unusual to install software not coming from the software repository'''. So we (still) do not provide a method to install Kiwix (the static version available online for download) with content on a GNU/Linux system. We advise (if possible) to use instead the package and copy the "[[Build_a_DVD#File_structure|data]]" directory to /usr/[local/]share/kiwix/. | * '''On GNU/Linux, this is unusual to install software not coming from the software repository'''. So we (still) do not provide a method to install Kiwix (the static version available online for download) with content on a GNU/Linux system. We advise (if possible) to use instead the package and copy the "[[Build_a_DVD#File_structure|data]]" directory to /usr/[local/]share/kiwix/. | ||