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GIS for the UN*X World

In a recent post on VerySpatial.com, Jesse was discussing the apparent dominance of U*nix and observed:

‘…the geospatial industry almost completely left behind support for UNIX-like OSes’

It is true that the proprietary GIS vendors have largely abandoned Unix and Unix-like operating systems and continue to do so. However the open source GIS community has embraced all major operating systems with software that runs on Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, and yes, Windows. This support includes everything from the desktop to the server.

For those of us that prefer to operate in a Un*x environment, that’s good news.

This entry was posted on 06/01/2010 (Wednesday) at 7:40 pm and is filed under GIS in General, Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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