Hi Cameron,
Running OSGeoLive on the cloud is trivial and is already offered by
commercial cloud providers (e.g. I have seen it in CreoDIAS which is
based on OpenStack)
https://creodias.eu/-/how-to-get-access-to-gui-on-vm-with-osgeolive-image-
Best,
Angelos
On 2/7/22 20:43, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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...?
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