[OSGeo-Discuss] Ubuntu vs. Centos for GIS?

2014-04-02 Thread David Strom
We have a project where people are using R Grass GDAL for various sorts of Geoprocessing. The first server we put up is running Ubuntu 12.0.4, and we installed Grass, Gdal, etc. from repository(ies) - i.e., we didn't build it. 2nd server is running Centos, because of EMC SAN storage,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ubuntu vs. Centos for GIS?

2014-04-02 Thread Alex Mandel
On 04/02/2014 11:13 AM, David Strom wrote: We have a project where people are using R Grass GDAL for various sorts of Geoprocessing. The first server we put up is running Ubuntu 12.0.4, and we installed Grass, Gdal, etc. from repository(ies) - i.e., we didn't build it. 2nd server is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ubuntu vs. Centos for GIS?

2014-04-02 Thread Brian H Wilson
A lot of people like RH and CentOS because you can get paid support so I understand the need for support. It just seems to lag getting there by 6 month to a year in my experience. -Steve I am switching my big noisy server from CentOS to Ubuntu Server even as we speak. The ONLY reason I