Spatial Galaxy » os x http://spatialgalaxy.net Exploring the Realms of GIS and Other Stuff Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:36:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 GIS for the UN*X World http://spatialgalaxy.net/2010/01/06/gis-for-the-unx-world/ http://spatialgalaxy.net/2010/01/06/gis-for-the-unx-world/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:40:32 +0000 Gary Sherman http://spatialgalaxy.net/?p=144 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.

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