>OS: >OK, I think I shouldn't ask about which OS since foss runs on everything >(right?). But are I am curious to know if there are any advantages using >Debian instead of Ubuntu for example?
Everyone has their own favorite; I've been using Ubuntu and Grass together since 2004, with no difficulties on 32-bit and 64-bit machines. >Filesystems: >Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster) for data storage? Is there any >important advantage to choose XFS for example rather than ext3? Not sure about the main differences/advantages of either; I've been using ext3 since forever, with no regrets. >Partitions: >Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes. Have >you split further your partition based on other criteria, always related >with "working with geospatial data"? Pretty much the main 3-4 projects I'm working on are on /home, with anything I haven't worked on in the last 2-weeks backed up and archived on an external 2TB hardrive. (LaCie) >Do you keep all of your source code in a separate partition maybe? Nope, just under good old /usr/local. I only compile from scratch those applications where I need all the bleeding edge goodies and bug fixes, which, for me, is only Grass, gdal, and lilypond. I try to use the distribution's packages for everything else; makes it a lot easier to maintain using the package manager than chasing around and recompiling source for a ton of apps. >Organisation: >GRASS takes care to organise the data inside the GIS data-base and its >fantastic. But what about the "raw" data? How do you organise them? >Manually everything? Any tool to be more productive? Once raw data is imported into Grass, I usually get it off my hard drive and backed up onto something external, in case my computer melts down; then I can always rebuild from scratch. Of course the external drive could also melt down. I guess a RAID would be even better, but costs more. >BackUp: >How often do you backup your data? Do you just copy or do you compress >as well? What is safer? I've been using 'tar cjvf' for each project, but that is becoming unmanageable; I need to migrate to a versioning system as Dylan has done with rsync. At least for the projects I work on all the time. The old stuff can probably stay on the backup drive in tar.bz2 format. >Other: >Any other important issues when setting-up a new foss-geo-box? I just installed Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 yesterday, and found it much easier installing packages via Synaptic rather than downloading the bleeding edge source packages and compiling. The only source package I had to compile was Grass. Thank you, Nikos P.S. Maybe we can add a new wiki-page if something useful comes out of this thread. Or maybe not... :-) _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
