[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.5 RC1 status

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,
I have completed a new build based on 12.04.2 and it looks good so far.
http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-debug-build10000.iso
This could be RC2 if we decide to make this extra step towards Secure Boot.

I would like to hear more opinions about our options here.
Hamish proposed another option on IRC yesterday:
4. Release RC1 as Final and do a 6.5.1 with the 12.04.2 Xubuntu base 
after a month or so, when more feedback will be available.

Angelos

On 02/16/2013 12:03 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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