[Freegis-list] Re: which linux distro?

[Dave Stevens]

Recently a trend has emerged to produce Linux distributions that run live from 
CD - they don't install themselves and in fact don't write anything at all on 
your hard disk, they run entirely from CD and RAM memory. Look up Knoppix - 
GIS and you'll see you can download a cd image of linux specifically tailored 
to people ho want to try GIS applications without necessarily upsetting their 
existing operating system or applications. 

In general what you do is:

download an ISO image
burn it to CD
tell your computer's BIOS to boot from CD
restart your computer

After you've finished you can just take out the CD, restart, and you are back 
in Fedora or XP or whatever - no changes are made to your system.

My experience was very positive, the CD found my internet connection, set up 
my mouse and sound card, video worked well, and at the end of the day I was 
back with my existing Fedora setup.

Go to http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php and look down the right 
hand column for Geographic Information Systems.

Good luck!

dave


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> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:18:46 +0200
> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Best Linux Distribution for GIS
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> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:18:24AM -0400, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> > Also a few links that could help you (there are more I'm sure):
> >
> > - Fedora Core 1 RPMs of some packages:
> >     http://postgis.refractions.net/rpms/fedora/1/i386/
> >
> > - And some for Fedora Core 2 here:
> >     http://ftp.intevation.de/users/silke/packages/fedora/
> >
> > - The Free and Open Source GIS Software suite project sounds promising:
> >     http://harmeny.com/twiki/bin/view/Fgs/WebHome
>
> Concerning GRASS:
>
> GRASS RPMs are available for Mandrake 10:
>
> - GRASS 5.3:
>    http://grass.itc.it/grass53/binary/linux/mandrake.html
> - GRASS 5.7:
>    http://grass.itc.it/grass57/binary/linux/mandrake.html
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>
> Markus
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> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:37:03 -0300
> From: Carlos Henrique Grohmann <guano at usp.br>
> Subject: [Freegis-list] Re: Best Linux Distribution for GIS
> To: freegis-list at intevation.de
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> Sean,
>
> I agree that the best distro is the one you get more confortable with. I am
> a Slackware user, and I can tell you that it is a very good distro when you
> have to compile from the source (I already have problem with others..).
> Since you are using Fedora, I don't see any trouble abaout packages, since
> rpm is almost everywhere. If you find a package that doesn't have a rpm,
> you can use "alien" (I think that fedora has this package) to convert from
> .deb. to .rpm, for instance.
> If you paln to complie stuff, be sure you have all dependencies.
>
> best regards
>
> Carlos

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