[OSGeo-Discuss] linux distro preferences

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Petr,

All will do,
But since you ask for a recommendation: I recommend Debian. Their GIS
team has grown a lot recently and debian has packaged many GIS
packages [1], and has been providing security updates to them quickly
in the past (see eg [2]). Definitely the upcoming "jessie" release
will contain a large number of GIS packages out of the box.

Johan

[1]http://blends.debian.net/gis/tasks/
[2] http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/mapserver/mapserver_6.0.1-3.2+deb7u2_changelog

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Petr,
> If you decide to use a Debian based distribution, such as Ubuntu, you likely
> will appreciate the install scripts we use for the OSGeo-Live project:
> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/
>
> These install scripts are tested and verified every 6 months on Lubuntu, but
> most (all?) should work on any Ubuntu flavour.
>
> You can customise main.sh to install just the packages you are interested
> in.
>
>
>
>
> On 18/11/2014 12:06 am, Dan Little wrote:
>
> I've used the lot of them and some more times than not, it has come down to
> client requirements for which distro needs to be used.
>
> I will ring a voice in favour of CentOS.  Maybe it's really in favour of
> RHEL which is where I've spent quite a bit of time.  And really, I think I'm
> in favour of using RPM.  I've found myself much happier using RPM to build
> deployable packages for clients, including localized RPM-install databases,
> than I have been using .DEB deploys.  It could be that I don't have the zen
> of Deb down yet, a complete fault of my own, but RPM has been easier, it
> seems, for that type of work.
>
> That said, when I'm whipping up a light-weight sever or running things on a
> laptop, I'll gravitate towards one of the Debian/Ubuntu variants such as
> Mint, Bohdi, or raw-Debian for server stuff.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Echoing Jo's note on Ubuntu LTS. Personally experience of Centos was just
>> too painful.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On 17 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>> We use Ubuntu LTS for our AWS servers. I know it wasn't part of the
>> question, but we have two under very similar load, doing the same things,
>> one with SSD and one without- and I would definitely recommend SSD.
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM, George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I use Ubuntu for my servers. Some clients use CentOS.
>>>
>>> Never tried OpenSuse and Debian.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Suk <petrxsuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I need to choose one linux distro for running our geospatial
>>>> applications on AWS. It means running mainly GeoServer, MapServer, MapProxy,
>>>> PostGIS and so on . I have my hot candidate but it's always good to know
>>>> others opinion.
>>>> I know that it is not as simple, but please, can you just write your
>>>> favorite one?
>>>> The shortlist is as follow:
>>>> OpenSuse, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your tips.
>>>> Petr
>>>>
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