Thanks Alex. Cheers, Hugo
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]>wrote: > OSGeo Live maintains an svn repo: > http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/ > > The bin folder has the scripts, other folders have supporting files. > > See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc for more details about the > build process. > > Enjoy, > Alex > > On 05/02/2012 12:36 PM, Hugo wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > Just out of curiosity where would those scripts be downloadable??? I've > > been trying to find them but didn't get them. > > Cheers, > > > > Hugo > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Alex Mandel <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> In fact it's been done for you already > >> http://live.osgeo.org > >> > >> The whole stack installed and setup together on a linux box. FYI the > >> scripts used to do all the installing are available if you want to pick > >> and choose what to install and it's all based on Ubunutu/Xubuntu so any > >> variant of those will work. > >> > >> Enjoy, > >> Alex > >> > >> On 05/01/2012 03:36 AM, António M. Rodrigues wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> A quick question concerning QGIS (and other software - GRASS, R ...) on > >>> Linux. > >>> > >>> I have a MAC but at work I am thinking a getting a new machine, running > >>> Linux. After browsing the net for optional distributions, I came across > >>> ArchLinux. It immediately caught my attention with the phrase "A > simple, > >>> lightweight distribution". > >>> > >>> The question is: the fact that it is "so lightweight", does it mean it > >> will > >>> be painstakingly hard to get every bits together in order to have all > >>> frameworks, all dependencies, etc, working in order to have a fully > >> working > >>> GIS workstation (QGIS, GRASS, R, ...)? > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> Regards, > >>> António > >>> > >>> ---------- > >>> > >>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:06:27 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote: > >>>> Lee, > >>>> > >>>> 2012/4/29 Lee Hachadoorian <[email protected]>: > >>>>> Agustin, > >>>>> > >>>>> I suppose it depends on what you don't like about Ubuntu. I also use > >>> 10.04, > >>>>> and am planning on upgrading to 12.04 but keeping the GNOME desktop > >>>>> environment. > >>>> > >>>> Ii think you'll be disapointed... > >>>> > >>>> But if you're looking to get away from Ubuntu, what about the > >>>>> OSGeo-Live distro? It's based on Xubuntu and comes pre-loaded with > QGIS > >>> and > >>>>> a bunch of other GIS software, as well as other goodies like R. I've > >>> used it > >>>>> occasionally to test some of the applications that aren't in the > >> regular > >>>>> Ubuntu repos. > >>>> That's a good way to get introduced to the different OSGeo > applications, > >>> but > >>>> does not solve my problem. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks! > >>>> Agus > >>>> > >>>>> Best, > >>>>> --Lee > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Werner Macho < > [email protected]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>> Hi Agus! > >>> > >>> I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now > >>> and I am very satisfied with it. > >>> Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too > >>> much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something > I > >>> use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as > plain > >>> debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are > a > >>> bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE > >>> based on debian testing .. > >>> I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything > >>> you want to do.. > >>> So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take > >>> linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity > - > >>> but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, > with > >>> newer software from mint.. > >>> (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I > >>> am really satisfied with it) > >>> just my 2¢ > >>> > >>> kind regards > >>> Werner > >>>>>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Hugo Martins
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