Monthly Archives: December 2006

Network based installation of Linux distros

How to forge has a great article up on how to install linux over a network connection using you own Preboot eXecution Environment installation server. This will allow you to play around with various distributions without the need of burning CDs / DVDs of each distribution.
The Article

Mapping software

Recently I did some research in mapping software. So far I found 2 reasonable packages that can be used in an automated fashion:

GRASS
GMT

While GMT is probably the most extensive one, GRASS (for now) seems to be the most flexible from an automated standpoint.
The idea is to make a C++ application to spit out some maps [...]