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OSGeoLive is a bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows the user to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. OSGeoLive provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.



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OSGeoLive Summary
Distribution OSGeoLive (formerly OSGeo-Live)
Home Page https://live.osgeo.org/
Mailing Lists https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive
User Forums --
Alternative User Forums
Documentation http://wiki.osgeo.org/
https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/osgeolive_quickstart.html
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Screencasts
Download Mirrors https://sourceforge.net/projects/osgeo-live/files/
Bug Tracker https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/
Related Websites  
Reviews 12.x: Alv.me (Russian)
Where To Donate, Buy, or Try

Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2021-05-26: Distribution Release: OSGeoLive 14.0
 • 2019-09-11: Distribution Release: OSGeoLive 13.0
 • 2018-09-11: Distribution Release: OSGeoLive 12.0
 • 2017-08-09: Distribution Release: OSGeo-Live 11.0
 • More OSGeoLive releases...

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  • Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.
  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.
Feature 16.0 15.0 14.0
Release Date 2023-10-27 2022-09-27 2021-05-22
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 4100-4200 4100-4200 4100-4200
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop LXQt LXQt LXQt
Package Management DEB (apt) DEB (apt) DEB (apt)
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice -- LibreOffice
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4
Multilingual de, en, es, fi, fr, hu, it de, en, es, fi, fr, hu, it de, en, es, fi, fr, hu, it
Asian Language Support ja ja ja
Full Package List 16.0 15.0 14.0
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.11) 1.2.6.1 1.2.6.1 1.2.2
amdgpu (23.0.0) 22.0.0 22.0.0 19.1.0
bash (5.2.21) 5.1 5.1 5.0
bind (9.18.21) -- -- --
chromium (121.0.6167.139) -- -- --
cups (2.4.7) 2.4.1 2.4.1 2.3.1
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.1 4.4.1 4.4.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.46.5 1.46.5 1.45.5
firefox (122.0) 116.0.2 103.0.1 88.0.1
freetype (2.13.2) 2.11.1 2.11.1 2.10.1
gcc (13.2.0) -- -- 9.3.0
gimp (2.10.36) -- -- --
glibc (2.39) 2.35 2.35 2.31
gnome-shell (45.3) -- -- --
gnucash (5.5) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- --
grub (2.12) 2.06 2.06 2.04
gtk (4.12.5) 3.24.33 3.24.33 3.24.20
httpd (2.4.58) 2.4.52 2.4.52 2.4.41
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- --
k3b (23.08.4) -- -- --
kmod (31) 29 29 27
krita (5.2.2) -- -- --
LibreOffice (24.2.0) 7.3.7 -- 6.4.7
linux (6.7.3) 5.19 5.15 5.4
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- --
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) -- -- --
mesa (24.0.0) 22.2.5 22.0.1 20.0.8
mysql (8.3.0) -- -- --
nautilus (45.2.1) -- -- --
NVIDIA (545.29.06) -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1
openjdk (21.0.2) 8u382 8u342 8u292
openssh (9.6p1) 8.9p1 8.9p1 8.2p1
openssl (3.2.1) 3.0.2 3.0.2 1.1.1f
perl (5.38.2) 5.34.0 5.34.0 5.30.0
php (8.3.2) 8.1.2 8.1.2 7.4.3
plasma-desktop (5.27.10) -- -- --
postfix (3.8.5) -- -- --
postgresql (16.1) 14.8 14.4 12.6
Python (3.12.1) 3.10.6 3.10.4 3.8.2
qt (6.6.1) 5.15.3 5.15.3 5.12.8
samba (4.19.4) -- -- --
systemd (255.3) 249.11 249.11 245.4
thunderbird (115.7.0) -- -- --
vim (9.1) 8.2 8.2 8.1
vlc (3.0.20) 3.0.16 3.0.16 --
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.11) 21.1.3 21.1.3 1.20.9


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Version: 14.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-09
Votes: 86


Well for what it is supposed to do I must say it does it pretty well, as a Geographer myself I have tried OSGeo a couple of times when I need to use geospatial software on any PC without the need of installing anything

The GUI is decent, it does not have "eyecandy" however I must admit that is funtional and for me that is a priority for a work machine, also it could be just me but the lighter interface does help when using QGIS due less stress on the CPU and more snapiness in the menus

Overall I would recommended for any geographer or GIS analyst to have it as a backup just in case you need to do something on the go without having to worry about installing everything in every PC, we need more projects like this in Linux!


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Version: 12.0
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-05-26
Votes: 0


I did some research on how this would come over to a non-computer-savy user using a USB stick.
Some, but not much, configuration would be necessary.
:D



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