osgeo live

OSGEOLive 12.0

So for those of you going “HEY I WANT TO USE SOME OF THIS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE?”. Maybe you can’t install it locally…or maybe you have a spare machine laying around – there’s a way for you to do it.

Download the OSGEOLive image and run it as a virtual machine or boot your computer into the Distribution. It’s a Linux operating system with about 50 plus free and open source geospatial applications.

They put a ton of effort into releasing this as a showcase of the software in the OSGEO realm. So give it a run and test out software you have questions about.

OSGEO 10.5 Released

Have you ever wanted to play with some Free and Open Source Tools but went “I won’t want to install them”. Well – download the newest OSGEO Live

Website: http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

OSgeo Live is a collection of FOSS4G software contained in a bootable image. You can write it to a DVD, a USB, or boot it in VirtualBox.

Release Highlights include

Supporting isohybrid ISO images with UEFI

GRASS 7.2.0
QGIS 2.14.11
GDAL 2.1.3
GeoServer 2.10.1, now with NetCDF plugin
PostGIS 2.3.2
GEOS 3.5.1
MapServer 7.0.4
pycsw 2.0.2
GeoMoose 2.9.2
OTB 5.8.0
SAGA 2.3.1
ZOO-Project 1.6.0
pgRouting 2.3.2
52nSOS 4.3.9
MapProxy 1.9.0
rasdaman 9.3.0
Deegree 3.3.18

Give it a download and test it out.