On 04/30/2012 02:27 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
We are starting to build the 6.0 OSGeo-Live <http://live.osgeo.org/>
DVD which will be released in September 2012, ready for FOSS4G 2012 as
well as many other spatial conferences. This upcoming version will be
built upon the stable Xubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release.
Documentation will be translated into eight languages, now also
including Chinese and Catalan.
Any new applications?
We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to
OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add extra translations, or
anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.
Key Priorities for next release
Package Updates
Migrate to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Update and test latest stable
software releases
Migrating to OpenJDK
Due to Oracles changed license conditions for Sun-Java, Ubuntu users
are now strongly encouraging to move to OpenJDK instead of Sun Java,
due to both improvements in OpenJDK, and difficult licencing
conditions with Sun Java. As such, we will be endevouring to move
all java based applications to OpenJDK (instead of Sun Java).
Disk Space
We have reached our DVD size limits, and need to be creative about
saving space and disciplined in not losing space to duplication. We
hope to ship a single Java and single Tomcat version this time, in
addition to further consolidation around shared sample datasets.
Testing
With Quality being a key focus area for us, we need lots of help
with testing.
Key Milestones
10 Jul 2012 Feature Freeze 07 Aug 2012 User Acceptance Test (all
Apps installed and working) 28 Aug 2012 Final ISO sent to printers
... full schedule
<http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB>
About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-live is an XUbuntu <http://xubuntu.org/> based distribution of
Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual
Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open
source geospatial software without installing anything.
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For those wanting to test their applications or develop new installers
there is OSGeoLive6.0-alpha1 build:
http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.0/
Regards,
Angelos
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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