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Mon, Aug 16 2004
19:54:22
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Request created by guest
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Subject: HostGIS Linux: A Linux distribution for GIS
HostGIS Linux is a Linux distribution for doing GIS. The initial 1.0 release
already exists, and contains MapServer, Postgres/PostGIS, Apache/PHP, and MapScript
for PHP, Perl, and Python. The goal is that, rather than spending days installing
the map-service infrastructure, you simply install the OS and can immediately
begin uploading mapfiles and HTML.
Once 1.0 gets some popularity, some new features worked in, and a few bugs stamped
out (if any are found), the goal is to begin work on 2.0, which will include
KDE, GRASS, JUMP, and so on to make it a full-fledged GIS generation and hosting
platform.
The ISO image for HostGIS Linux can be downloaded from:
http://maps.hostgis.com/linux/HostGIS_Linux.zip |
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Mon, Aug 16 2004
20:07:01
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Mail sent by bernhard
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Will this GNU/Linux distribution be completely based on Free Software
and can it be used from completely free system?
AFAIK JUMP cannot run with Free Software alone yet.
In addition I am unsure if we should list special GNU/Linux distribution
like this. Do you have a webpage that describes the goal of the project better?
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Mon, Aug 16 2004
20:49:47
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> Will this GNU/Linux distribution be completely based on Free Software
> and can it be used from completely free system?
> AFAIK JUMP cannot run with Free Software alone yet.
The distro as a whole is, of course, GPL.
The only individual component that's not GPL is PDFlib, which is being
redistributed in accordance with its royalty-free license. (the terms are
simply that the original source be available, which it is) The
alternatives to including PDFlib in this fashion aren't pretty: no PDF
support (which is widely used) or compile and link everything but not
include the library itself (so nothing will work until you download the
lib).
Addition of any further software would, of course, be contingent on that
software being OSS or otherwise freely redistributable. JUMP isn't part of
it yet, and may not be unless Sun has a OSS-friendly license for Java,
which I haven't yet checked out.
> In addition I am unsure if we should list special GNU/Linux distribution
> like this.
That's too bad. I really think it'd do the GIS community a lot of good -
it takes days to install MapServer and it is SUCH a headache. A prebuilt
distribution will save literally tens of thousands of man-hours per year.
> Do you have a webpage that describes the goal of the project better?
Not yet, the manager doing the website is caught up on other things. I'm
hoping to have such a page up within a few days.
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