[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 12.0 status: rc1

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi activityworkshop,

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:51 PM <mail at activityworkshop.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was able to try out the rc1, and it boots fine, although I find it a
> shame that it now requires an 8GB stick rather than a 4GB stick.  On a
> 4GB stick using dd I didn't get any error message on the write, but the
> stick was then not bootable.  Although I guess 8GB sticks are considered
> tiny these days so that shouldn't be a problem.
>

It is not the first time we have reached the 4GB limit (see 10.5 iso).


>
> My main concern with the rc1 is that GpsPrune is still at version 18.6,
> rather than the proposed version 19.  I hope that it will still be
> possible to change this, it should be a trivial change I think?
>

I have just pushed gpsprube 19 package in the release ppa, so users will
get that as an update.


>
> The only other thing I noticed was the outdated Ubuntu 16.04 guide on
> the desktop, but I think this is being addressed already.  And when the
> welcome.txt talks about a "keyboard icon", it wasn't obvious to me that
> it meant the US flag icon.
>

Yes, that is already documented:
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/ticket/2106


>
> Thanks a lot,
> activityworkshop
>

Cheers,
Angelos


>
>
> On 2018-08-25 21:00, osgeolive-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:00:03 +0300
> > From: Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [OSGeoLive]  OSGeoLive 12.0 status: rc1
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Finally, OSGeoLive 12.0 release candidate is here [1] [2].
> > We have fixed as many issues as possible but we might have missed some
> > :)
> > Please test and report back [3].
> > If we do not find critical issues within the next days, we will release
> > rc1
> > as final.
> >
> > Happy FOSS4G,
> > Angelos
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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