[Live-demo] [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeoLive 7.0 status: alpha1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 05/14/2013 04:58 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 05/13/2013 05:30 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> On 05/13/2013 01:37 PM, Hamish wrote:
>>> Angelos wrote:
>>>> I would prefer for us to start building a new mini upon
>>>> 64bit base and offer to the final users both 32 and 64 bit
>>>> builds.
>>> that would be ok if all software sources were from official
>>> build methods with fixed toolchain, but since we have many
>>> locally built tarballs installed it gets tough to make sure
>>> that everything builds and runs everywhere. our workload is
>>> already near capacity, although sticking with 12.04 should help
>>> with that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mac is important. As a community they have been neglected by the
>>> major firms and are eager to find some native software that works.
>>> It's probably worth a look to see what the debian live people
>>> have done to get it to work there.  http://live.debian.net
>>>
>>>
>>> shrug,
>>> Hamish
>>>
>> Checking the available 12.04.2 download link
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/12.04.2/release/
>> I see that there is no mac specific download for the LTS....
>>
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>
> Plain ubuntu and lubuntu both have it. May xubuntu didn't want to bother
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/12.04/release/
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/12.04/release/lubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64+mac.iso 
>
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/release/
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/release/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64+mac.iso 
>
>
>
> Have we tried a lubuntu build yet to see if it reduces space and 
> hardware requirements?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
Hi Alex,

 From the previous discussion, I had the impression that one possible 
option was lubuntu 13.04, not 12.04, since I recall it was not polished 
enough to be used back then.

The answer to your question is no, we have not tried to build with it.

Cheers,
Angelos

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos