[GRASS-user] Tips for setting up an new FOSS-GEO-linux-box

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Patton, Eric <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
>>OS:
>>OK, I think I shouldn't ask about which OS since foss runs on everything
>>(right?). But are I am curious to know if there are any advantages using
>>Debian instead of Ubuntu for example?
>
> Everyone has their own favorite; I've been using Ubuntu and Grass together
> since 2004, with no difficulties on 32-bit and 64-bit machines.

Happy Mandriva user here :)
Also Scientific Linux user on our cluster.

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>>Do you keep all of your source code in a separate partition maybe?
>
> Nope, just under good old /usr/local. I only compile from scratch those applications where
> I need all the bleeding edge goodies

I don't even install but run it directly with a link from
 grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/

Markus