Hi all,
I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial applications
on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer, MapProxy, PostGIS and
so on . I have my hot candidate but it's always good to know others opinion.
I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write
I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS.
Never tried OpenSuse and Debian.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk petrx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial applications
on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer,
We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the
question, but we have two under very similar load, doing the same things,
one with SSD and one without- and I would definitely recommend SSD.
Jo
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva georger.si...@gmail.com
wrote:
I
Echoing Jo's note on Ubuntu LTS. Personally experience of Centos was just too
painful.
Best,
Mark
On 17 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com wrote:
We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the question,
but we have two under very similar load,
I've used the lot of them and some more times than not, it has come down to
client requirements for which distro needs to be used.
I will ring a voice in favour of CentOS. Maybe it's really in favour of
RHEL which is where I've spent quite a bit of time. And really, I think
I'm in favour of
Petr,
If you decide to use a Debian based distribution, such as Ubuntu, you
likely will appreciate the install scripts we use for the OSGeo-Live
project:
https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/
These install scripts are tested and verified every 6 months on Lubuntu,
but most
Petr,
All will do,
But since you ask for a recommendation: I recommend Debian. Their GIS
team has grown a lot recently and debian has packaged many GIS
packages [1], and has been providing security updates to them quickly
in the past (see eg [2]). Definitely the upcoming jessie release
will
Oops forgot to send to the list
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Cameron Shorter
cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote:
Petr,
If you decide to use a Debian based distribution, such as Ubuntu, you
likely
will appreciate the install scripts we use for the OSGeo-Live project:
