[Live-demo] Starting the build process for OSGeo-Live 9.5

[Pieter du Plooy]

Hi guys

I have been following the development of this project for a couple of years
now, and was especially happy to see a 64 bit version, as one of my most
used applications is Opticks, as that is only available as 64 bit.

I personally would welcome "forks" based on other Desktop environments, as
I particularly like KDE

I would like to volunteer attempting to test the feasibility of using KDE.
(Kubuntu)

On a side note, I have been using Gentoo for ages, but have recently
switched to Arch Linux, as it gives me greater freedom in what I choose to
include, and to compile the apps that I want.  The last few months I have
spent using GIS software on Arch, and was really impressed of what can be
done!! Most, if not all apps included on the DVD, I can use in Arch.

I would like to try (in the new year) to have a GIS specific Arch Distro,
to see if I can emulate the Live DVD in Arch.

Regards

Pieter

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/28/2015 01:24 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> I had the following email sent directly to me.
> I'm responding publicly to the OSGeo-Live list as I there may be others
> with suggestions, but have removed the sender's name.
>
> On 23/11/2015 6:36 am, XXX wrote:
>
> Is it possible to add more desktop managers? Lubuntu has just LXDE. With
> the current project, when I try to use another manager (GNOME or Cinnamon),
> lots of programs stop working (and I really don't understand why).
> This is not really a matter of functionality. It's just that I don't enjoy
> working in a Windows-like distribution of Linux. I think GNOME is a
> environment that aims productivity.
>
>
> For OSGeo-Live, we only support one desktop manager, primarily as reduces
> the amount of testing required in getting the release out. Lubuntu is the
> desktop we use because it is small and we try to keep the size small enough
> to fit on a DVD.
>
> We'd be happy to see another distribution supported as a branch, but I
> expect it will be quite a bit of effort. Volunteers are always welcome.
>
>
> During the build procedure we customize the desktop environment in order
> to add the geospatial menu, the desktop items etc. We do not do this
> customization on the packaging level: we do not produce derivative deb
> files of LXDE.
>
> Instead we execute:
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_icons_and_menus.sh
> which customizes the desktop post-install.
>
> To achieve what is suggested here would require us to fork debian
> packaging of other desktop environments (GNOME, KDE etc) and make sure that
> all applications work fine on those environments.
> From my experience, every major GNU/Linux distribution has a dedicated
> team of maintainers for each desktop environment supported.
>
> Short answer: we could do that if we had enough hands to help.
>
>
>
>
> There's also a recommendation of adding a program called SPRING (
> http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html). I underestimated this
> software for remote sensing image processing. My mistake. I never saw a
> software transform a scanned map (raster) into vector so fast and so
> perfectly. And I will not mention the awesome speed of its supervised
> classification. It's astounding. I never witnessed something alike. Not in
> free or proprietary software.
> Sadly! This software will not be supported anymore. I hope someone fork it
> in some moment.
>
>
> If this project is as good as you suggest, and there is a community behind
> the project who wish to do the work to bring the project to OSGeo-Live,
> then we would certainly consider it.
> The process is described here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event
>
>
> +1
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
>
> And... That's it!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
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