Thanks a lot for your answers I can solve many doubts, and definitly I am
going to start the migration process. My best regards.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <
johan.vandewauw@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 13:43 +0200, Virgilio Gomez Rubio wrote:
> >> Dear Jaime,
> >>
> >> In addition to all options pointed out, you may want to try Quantian:
> >>
> >> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
> I would not recommend such an ancient distribution - newer hardware
> may not work well, the version of all software is *old*
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM, stefano <stefano@casalegno.net> wrote:
>
> > You can try the  http://gisvm.com/ Ubuntu virtual machine that includes
> > GRASS R Qgis SAGA and many other interesting tools.
> >
> > You can also try the virtual machine from the www.spatial-ecology.net
> > that is very similar. The spatial-ecology wiki provide many examples and
> > tutorials for beginners willing to learn GIS and spatial analysis using
> > OS softwares under GUI and under a command line interface. Just register
> > and explore it.
> Third option, which in my humble and biased opinion (largest developer
> base, documentation efforts) the best live dvd for open source gis:
> http://live.osgeo.org/
> Especially if you create a usb disk, install or run in virtualbox
> (running from dvd is very slow) a nice option.
>
> Anyway, to boil down to your original question: all distributions will
> do - and they are very similar. In your case I would nevertheless
> recommend ubuntu because ubuntugis ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS
> ) has some repositories with up to date versions of many gis packages,
> which makes it much easier to install things - there will be enough
> other things to learn if you switch from windows.
>
> Johan
>
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