Something which is getting more-and-more feasible every year is to run OSGeo-Live as a virtual machine in the cloud. We actually managed to do this back in 2009 <http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/10/try-open-source-geospatial-desktop.html>, but the partners working on it got stuck in the following release. Someone might want to take another look at this approach?
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 01:47, James Klassen <jklas...@sharedgeo.org> wrote: > There was discussion awhile back about supporting ARM for Raspberry Pi and > similar SBCs that came to the same conclusion that it would take more > developer resources that were available. > > OSGeo Live is meant to “just work” to encourage new users explore the > software without having to first face the learning curve of getting it > installed and configured correctly. That is a lot more difficult to > accomplish when users face to face the variations inherent in running > different architectures. > > Most, but not all of the packages that go into OSGeo Live are available on > ARM (are in Ubuntu-GIS and Debian-GIS or are platform agnostic and install > the same files as on x86). So, technically it isn’t too far fetched. But, > if I remember correctly, pain points are testing and documentation. I’d > venture a guess that, by far, nearly all of the developer time on OSGeo > Live is spent on testing and documentation. > > Another issue with ARM is that while the user space is the same/similar > across ARM devices, a bootable image (like we do with x86) would have to be > tailored to each device. Maybe there would be a way to just provide a user > space and have the user provide the matching version of Ubuntu for their > machine. Maybe the whole thing could be built into a snap or flatpak or > appimage. It would still be a different experience than we’ve > traditionally had for x86 which raises documentation and ease of use > concerns. > > > I’m also a bit surprised the M1 Macs can’t run x86 OSes in emulation. > There were programs that emulated a PC to allow 68k and PowerPC era Macs > to run DOS/Windows. > > On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 04:06 Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Barend, >> >> We do not have an ARM version. This would require more developer >> resources than we currently have, so there is currently no plan to >> support this architecture. >> >> Best, >> Angelos >> >> On 2/2/22 01:24, Kobben, Barend (UT-ITC) wrote: >> > For installation in the Parallels virtual machine on a new MacPro >> (running on the Apple silicon architecture), an ARM version instead of an >> Intel version is needed. Is that available, or will in be...? Or are there >> alternative ways to get it running on a Mac M1...? >> > >> > -- >> > Barend Köbben >> > Senior Lecturer – ITC-GIP & ATLAS, University Twente >> > PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (The Netherlands) >> > +31-(0)53 4874 253 / room 1-065 ITC >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > osgeolive mailing list >> > osgeolive@lists.osgeo.org >> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive >> >> >> -- >> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD >> President >> Open Source Geospatial Foundation >> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osgeolive mailing list >> osgeolive@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive >> > _______________________________________________ > osgeolive mailing list > osgeolive@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive > -- Cameron Shorter Technical Writer, Google
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