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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 05/14/2013 09:03 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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
>

FYI, I am now doing an amd64 build for alpha1.

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