On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:08 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > P.S. Maybe we can add a new wiki-page if something useful comes out of > this thread. Or maybe not... :-)
I whink an new page in http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page is better than in the GRASS-wiki. What do you think for "Tips for setting up a Linux Operating System / GIS Workstation" as a title? Since I am "forced" to speak greeklish very frequently some language check is never bad to have. If I am not wrong, the title is not possible to modify in a wiki (?), so it's better to define it correctly Thank you, Nikos P.S. Anyway, here is an initial idea for the structure --- Operating System/ Distribution Are there any advantages to choose a specific linux distribution? Filesystems Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster)? * According to some benchmarks [1] the XFS filesystem seems to perform an overall highscore. Partitions / Organisation 1. Geospatial data * Keep your geospatial data in a separate partition * Even further, using another hard disk drive than the main (the one in which the operating system is installed) to save the GIS database, will help... (Dylan, did I get this right, placing the data in another partition on another hard disk than the "main hd", secures the resources from being consumed 100% which the machine to crawl when under heavy gis-processing... ?) * Easy data exporting/sharing and multi-user access can be achieved using NFS 2. Free Open Source Geospatial Applications (Software) Where do you keep source codes? * All in one directory (+++add more) BackUp How often do you back up your data? How do you back up your data? * simple method: tar cjvf * syncing method: using rsync Other important issues (+++add more) _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
