[GRASS-dev] Which GRASS version to install in a university Lab?

[Paulo van Breugel]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ciao Nikos,
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Alexandris <
> nik at nikosalexandris.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear devs, and power-users,
>>
>> which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40
>> computers?  Stay with 6.4  or  jump into 7.0 RC2?  I recommended to wait
>> some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just
>> before the final release.
>>
>
> From my experience as a user, G7 has improved dramatically respect to 6,
> in new functionalities but especially for the capacity of handling large
> data sets.
>

I agree with the above, G7 is such an improvement in terms of features and
general improvements that there is really no reason to stay with G6. What
advantage would keeping G6.4 have?


>
> cheers,
> madi
>
>>
>> Thank you, Nikos
>>
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