[gdal-dev] need suggestion on Linux OS

[Peter Halls]

As an institution, we prefer Fedora, although I have little experience of 
it myself. It is widely supported by commercial applications, as well as 
open source. I have built GDAL for Cygwin (not my primary platform, I 
hasten to add!) with only issues surrounding Xerces that I have not been 
able to resolve quickly and simply.

Whatever Linux you choose, you will likely have also to subscribe to one of 
the application services or regularly pull and build new versions of your 
libraries and tools - the versions shipped with the OS are rarely current - 
simply because of the difficulty of keeping such distributions up to date. 
Indeed, this is not confined to Linux - there are at least two such 
services for Sun's Solaris, for example.

Best wishes,

Peter

On Apr 22 2009, Gong, Shawn (Contractor) wrote:

>hi list,
>
>I'd appreciate suggestions on Linux OS. We'd like to build newest gdal,
>as well as OpenEV2 using GTK2.
>Have tried CentOS. But it libraries seem too conservative.
>
>Is Fedora 9 a better choice?
>
>thanks,
>Shawn
>
>
>
>

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