As far as I know, ESRI have Linux versions of the <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#>ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcObjects (i.e. server products) but not for ArcMap, ArcCatalog or ArcInfo. ESRI product documentation only talks about SUSE, Red Hat (intel), and Solaris... Steve On Nov 17, 2007 10:25 AM, Andre Lehovich <andrel@yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Greater Worcester Land Trust <gwlt@gwlt.org> wrote:

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Problem I had back then was weak graphic options, publisher options, Quicken options, and a lack of a good answer to running ArcGIS.

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What, if any, of the options do the WLUG folk prefer/recommend.

If you didn't have ArcGIS in the mix I'd say go with Ubuntu. But since you do, check what the vendor recommends to see if Ubuntu is okay. If not then either go with Red Hat (if you want to pay for support) or Centos (if you don't).

I don't know anything about accounting software, but my guess is that's the other big thing to pay attention to.

--Andre

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I'm not inclined to agree with the herd on this. I've deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop into some businesses and three campuses of a school system. Xen was part of the distro (an important consideration) so I also loaded XP on the boxes that needed to run Windows apps. None of this dual boot stuff. They've called Novell's tech support on occasion and their feedback to me has been very positive. They didn't have to come back to me for problems. Candidly, I found this Linux distro a lot easier to integrate into a MAC (OS9 and OS-X) environment; that also was an important consideration. Just my experience from the trenches. Bob Greater Worcester Land Trust wrote:

It has been a while.

I tried getting our nonprofit (Worcester land conservation) to adopt Linux some years back. Problem I had back then was weak graphic options, publisher options, Quicken options, and a lack of a good answer to running ArcGIS. I was beaten back into M$.

I want another crack at this.

I am looking to take a spare laptop and install a Linux OS and OS apps. Previously, some years back, I used to use what are now Mandriva Linux installs.

Coming back to this I see that there are dozens and dozens of options these days.

What, if any, of the options do the WLUG folk prefer/recommend.

Thanks so much,

Colin

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