slaxGIS v080402

Two days ago we released a new version of slaxGIS, the customized SLAX distribution that we develop and use at Laboratorio di Geomatica. It is a GIS-oriented live USB GNU/Linux distribution that includes:

• GRASS 6.3.0 RC6
• MapServer 5.0.2
• Chameleon 2.6.0 RC1
• uDig 1.1 RC14
• OpenJUMP PIROL Edition 1.2B
• PostgreSQL 8.3.1
• PostGIS 1.3.2
• … and other software packages needed by the ones above

We find it very useful for both research and didactics, since it is much faster than a live CD or DVD and it is able to save all changes directly on the USB key filesystem. It can also be used for PC recovery purposes, since it automatically mounts all the hard drives found on the hosting machine.

~ by ege010 on April 4, 2008.