If you ever have considered investigating or working with elements of the geospatial world, check out the latest edition of OSGeoLive. OSGeoLive is a Linux distribution that runs directly from a bootable DVD or USB thumb drive. You also can load a pre-made virtual machine disk file that runs in a VMware Workstation or VirtualBox environment. Or you can install it the old-fashioned way as a dual-boot or sole operating system on a hard drive. Whichever approach you take, OSGeoLive gives you a complete Linux OS.
Once again, a real gem from you.
This is a fantastic distribution, and contains, in one place, (almost) all the tools you kinda, sorta know you'd LIKE to have and use, but don't even know where to start looking; a case of "...not knowing what questions to ask...".
What is really impressive is the home page:
https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
To get an idea of the tremendous amount of work put into this distro, make absolutely certain to click on the 'Contents', 'Metrics', and 'Sponsors' buttons. I've NEVER seen information before as contained in the 'Metrics' section (nor have I seen as impressive a list as that of the translators (Catalan?...).
Oh, and by the way, even though I'm absolutely certain that it's a coincidence--*five days* after you published this piece, 'OSGeoLive' has shown up being highlighted on "DistroWatch" 's home page.
New OSGeoLive Release Opens Doors to Geospatial Worlds
Posted by: Jack M. Germain September 6, 2019 10:36 AMIf you ever have considered investigating or working with elements of the geospatial world, check out the latest edition of OSGeoLive. OSGeoLive is a Linux distribution that runs directly from a bootable DVD or USB thumb drive. You also can load a pre-made virtual machine disk file that runs in a VMware Workstation or VirtualBox environment. Or you can install it the old-fashioned way as a dual-boot or sole operating system on a hard drive. Whichever approach you take, OSGeoLive gives you a complete Linux OS.
This is a fantastic distribution, and contains, in one place, (almost) all the tools you kinda, sorta know you'd LIKE to have and use, but don't even know where to start looking; a case of "...not knowing what questions to ask...".
What is really impressive is the home page:
https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
To get an idea of the tremendous amount of work put into this distro, make absolutely certain to click on the 'Contents', 'Metrics', and 'Sponsors' buttons. I've NEVER seen information before as contained in the 'Metrics' section (nor have I seen as impressive a list as that of the translators (Catalan?...).
Oh, and by the way, even though I'm absolutely certain that it's a coincidence--*five days* after you published this piece, 'OSGeoLive' has shown up being highlighted on "DistroWatch" 's home page.
Keep up your hard and very valuable work.