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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: worker201 on 12 April 2009, 11:38

Title: Poseidon Linux
Post by: worker201 on 12 April 2009, 11:38

Developed in Brazil.  Seems to be based on Ubuntu, but has a lot of hi-end mapping and scientific visualization software pre-installed.  As someone who has installed most of those programs from source, I can tell you that this is a good thing.  I'd love to try it out, but I'm having a hard time making room for stuff like that these days.  It would be awesome if my Thinkpad had an easy-access hard drive bay, I would swap stuff in and out of there all day long.

Some of the built-in stuff they include:
https://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/details

(that list won't mean much to you unless you're in the mapping industry)

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: davidnix71 on 12 April 2009, 21:56

If they got Grass to work, they've done well. I tried that on my Mac and it's a mess to install.

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: worker201 on 13 April 2009, 04:57

I had grass running in Fedora from an rpm - the dependency list was 10 miles long.  So yeah, I could see how building an install package would be difficult.

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: piratePenguin on 22 April 2009, 16:58

What application can take logged gps coordinates and produce a 3d plot and tell speed etc at different points?

I had this idea for a simple proof of concept project for 3d canvas on the web.

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: worker201 on 22 April 2009, 23:41

QGIS should be able to do it.
http://qgis.org/en/download/binaries.html (http://qgis.org/en/download/binaries.html)

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: WebNuLL on 4 May 2009, 18:42

Thanks, i will check that distro :)

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: Lead Head on 5 May 2009, 05:13

A new member!? Welcome aboard!

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: worker201 on 5 May 2009, 07:53

If you like that one, try this one out: HostGIS Linux
http://www.hostgis.com/linux/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page (http://www.hostgis.com/linux/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)

It's a Slack-based distro that comes stacked to the gills with spatial database servers and applications, which is ideal for hosting web-based mapping applications.  I was at a GIS user conference today, and met a guy who consults for them - they give the distro away for free, but offer paid development services.  They seem to be a pretty good group, so I thought I'd give a small shoutout.

Title: Re: Poseidon Linux
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 9 May 2009, 16:47

Quote from: Lead Head on  5 May 2009, 05:13

A new member!? Welcome aboard!

Wow, we don't get very many new members these days!