[Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?

[António M. Rodrigues]

Hi all,

A quick question concerning QGIS (and other software - GRASS, R ...) on
Linux.

I have a MAC but at work I am thinking a getting a new machine, running
Linux. After browsing the net for optional distributions, I came across
ArchLinux. It immediately caught my attention with the phrase "A simple,
lightweight distribution".

The question is: the fact that it is "so lightweight", does it mean it will
be painstakingly hard to get every bits together in order to have all
frameworks, all dependencies, etc, working in order to have a fully working
GIS workstation (QGIS, GRASS, R, ...)?

Thanks.
Regards,
António

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On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:06:27 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Lee,
>
> 2012/4/29 Lee Hachadoorian <Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com>:
>> Agustin,
>>
>> I suppose it depends on what you don't like about Ubuntu. I also use
10.04,
>> and am planning on upgrading to 12.04 but keeping the GNOME desktop
>> environment.
>
> Ii think you'll be disapointed...
>
> But if you're looking to get away from Ubuntu, what about the
>> OSGeo-Live distro? It's based on Xubuntu and comes pre-loaded with QGIS
and
>> a bunch of other GIS software, as well as other goodies like R. I've
used it
>> occasionally to test some of the applications that aren't in the regular
>> Ubuntu repos.
> That's a good way to get introduced to the different OSGeo applications,
but
> does not solve my problem.
>
> Thanks!
> Agus
>
>> Best,
>> --Lee
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>> Hi Agus!
>>>
>>> I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now
>>> and I am very satisfied with it.
>>> Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too
>>> much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something I
>>> use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as plain
>>> debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are a
>>> bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE
>>> based on debian testing ..
>>> I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything
>>> you want to do..
>>> So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take
>>> linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity -
>>> but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, with
>>> newer software from mint..
>>> (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I
>>> am really satisfied with it)
>>> just my 2¢
>>>
>>> kind regards
>>> Werner
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