Live GIS Disc Press Release 61
10 September 2014
DRAFT
Version 9.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection has been released, featuring over 50 open source, standards compliant geospatial applications.
Release Highlights
- 64 bit image support
- We are now providing both 32 and 64 bit image support
- Moved to Git
- We have moved from subversion to git for our version system.
- Debian packaging
- We have steadily been moving more of our projects to .deb packaging, which makes it easier to install programs on debian based systems such as OSGeo-Live, and allows application of post-release fixes if required.
- Applications
- TBD geospatial programs have been updated to newer versions.
About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing anything. It includes:
- Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
- Free world maps and sample datasets
- Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
- Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script
- Overviews of key OGC standards
- Translations to multiple languages
Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org
Download details: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html
Post release glitches collected here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/9.0
Credits
Over TBD people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software.
Developers, packagers, documenters and translators include:
TBD
Sponsoring organisations
- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeo-Live and many of the included applications.
- LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward management and packaging.
- Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support.
- Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, provides hardware resources and development support.
- The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages.