I have been onboard for 64 version from day 1 :) Angelos
On 01/31/2013 11:25 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
I haven't had a chance to fully test this so I was hesitant to file tickets yet. I think I have discovered how to get usb sticks to boot on a Mac, but at the same time discovered that many high end new machines of all varieties are about to break our current distro in usb form. The key, UEFI booting is only supported in 64 bit Ubuntu ( and from what I can tell that goes for all OSs). Sadly not circumventable like turning Secure boot off (a tip we should reference somewhere). Anecdotal evidence, I have several working OSGeoLive usb sticks and just got a new low end business laptop from lenovo with UEFI booting. I can't boot osgeo-live on it, but I can boot ubuntu 64 bit live. So we should probably discourage investment in a ton of usb sticks and discuss if for 7.0 we might need to also build a 64 bit build or find a way to bundle both (I think the 13.04 ubuntu live will be both). I recommend to conferences currently considering orders to do a split DVDs and USB sticks, and ask recipients which works for them before handing over. I'm also exploring a switch to Lubuntu which is now stable and even lighter weight than Xubuntu, leaving open the door to just build an ubuntu derivative even more stripped than that if it fixes space and arch issues. I'm not even going down the ARM rabbit whole yet with Chromebooks... Thanks, Alex PS: Maybe after our official release Kalxas and I can try to run the scripts and build an exp 64 bit version. _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
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