[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.5 RC1 status

[Alex Mandel]

Secure boot support would simplify things for a great deal of users on
new hardware (Windows 8 boxes ship with it on). So it's a pretty
important feature going forward. I'm on the fence as to just putting a
bug acknowledging the issue, and that currently you have to disable
secure boot (pushing the fix to 7.0) vs just re-building with the new base.

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/15/2013 01:30 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The only issue found in RC1 so far was a documentation problem (headers
> were inactive in the installers section).
> No software issues were reported so far and no blocker issues.
> 
> Thanks Cameron for fixing the above issue. This fix was included in
> latest nightly build [1]. I tested this nightly build and everything
> works as in RC1.
> 
> During the last 24h a new iso for Xubuntu 12.04.2 was released [2]
> As per [3] there is Secure Boot support within the kernel included in
> this version. I believe that this update might be worthy for doing an
> upgrade and a RC2.
> 
> I have started a test nightly (build 9999), based on 12.04.2 iso and
> this will be available soon at [4].
> 
> So our options:
> 1. Release RC1 as final. The doc issue is very minor in my opinion.
> 2. Release build 9997 as final. The doc issue is fixed but I am the only
> one who tested it (I have tested UAT, VM installation and USB creation)
> 3. Build RC2 based on new Xubuntu iso and call this the final if
> everything works as expected.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Best,
> Angelos
> 
> 
> [1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-debug-build9997.iso
> [2]
> http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/12.04/release/
> 
> [3]
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Secure-Boot-comes-to-Ubuntu-12-04-2-LTS-1804203.html
> 
> [4] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/
> 
> On 02/13/2013 09:00 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today we announce the first release candidate for OSGeoLive 6.5.
>>
>> We are happy to report that we have no major known issues:
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/11
>>
>> All applications have been tested the last few weeks, especially after
>> a very successful OSGeoLive hackathlon.
>>
>> We now need more testers to check the installed applications before we
>> declare Final.
>>
>> You can download the RC1 iso here:
>> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.5/osgeo-live-mini-6.5rc1.iso
>> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/6.5rc1/osgeo-live-mini-6.5rc1.iso
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Angelos
>>
>>
> 
>