Live GIS Disc Press Release 50

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Starting build cycle for OSGeo-Live 8.0

4 May 2014

We are starting the build cycle for the 8.0 OSGeo-Live DVD/USB/VM which will be released in September 2014, ready for the [http://2014.foss4g.org/ global FOSS4G conference in Portland. We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects, anyone wishing to extend or add extra translations, or anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.

Also, could all projects please reply to us with which stable version of their software should be included in this release.

Key Milestones

08 Jun 2014 All new applications installed, most old applications updated
07 Jul 2014 Feature Freeze (all apps updated)
27 Jul 2014 User Acceptance Test (all apps installed and working)
17 Aug 2014 Final ISO sent to printers

... full schedule

Upgraded to Xubuntu 14.04 LTS

OSGeo-Live 8.0 moves to the recently released Xubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support release. We have released the first alpha version of OSGeo-Live, which includes an update from Xubuntu 14.04 along with updated versions of applications from UbuntuGIS repository. Feel free to start testing your applications in the latest release. Download Alpha 1

About OSGeo-Live

The OSGeo Live demo DVD/VM/USB is an Xubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use it to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.

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