[Freegis-list] Free Gis CDROM

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:29:29PM +0100, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2004 15.21 schrieb Sajith VK:
> > 	Do anybody know a place where we can host our CD?
> 
> We were able to host it on the Swiss Sunsite Mirror. Maybe you have also luck 
> in India.
> 
> > I also wish to contribute to freegis.org's freegis CD instead of
> > working for a seperate one (To avoid duplication of work).
> 
> We're right now preparing a new version of our Knoppix-based CD with PostGIS, 
> MySQL with GIS extensions, TerraView, JUMP and the SPEARFISH data set for 
> GRASS (http://www.sourcepole.com/gis-knoppix/).

Did you manage to run JUMP completely on Free Software?
Otherwise it would be another CD with non-free Software on it. :/

> On http://grass.itc.it/demo.html you will find other live CDs with Grass.

I haven't tested all of those in detail,
but the problems I mentioned will exist with some of them:
	- contains some non-free software
	- companies cannot base derived CD on them, 
	  because it is not easy to get nice source CDs.
	- harddisk installation might be a pain if derived from knoppix
	- only of limited use to beginners because data,
	  procedures and documentation is not tightly integrated.

I guess some of those efforts should be merged
and the Free Software community should separate the task
to create a "Freie Software Knoppix" on top of Knoppix 
from creating special topic CD based on this.
	

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