[Gvsig_english] v1.9 alpha on Ubuntu 8.10

[Chris Puttick]

I'd say the Celeron v. the dual pentium is going to make all the performance difference you could want. Can you dual boot the big box with Ubuntu? I'd generally assume performance on identical hardware to be considerably faster in Linux.

----- "Squidjag" <colin.east at geospatial-ict.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> I can! Some context; I'm going to use gvSIG to teach post graduate
> management students spatial concepts. I'm a geospatial consultant
> (part time
> teacher) and use XP as my primary operating system. I've decided that
> I will
> not upgrade to Vista and am therefore looking at Ubuntu. gvSIG 1.1 is
> excellent and I will be using it for my course (probably OA actually)
> but it
> is not clear to me about a couple of spatial relations I want to teach
> so I
> wanted to take a squizz (peak) at 1.9alpha. I came across OA when
> looking to
> fix my other problems.
> 
> Anyway, I'm running gvSIG1.1 on a Windows box (pentium dual 1.8 ghz
> processor, 2 gig of ram) and  Unbuntu 8.10 on an older box (Celeron
> 2.8 ghz
> with 1.5 gig of ram). I must say that the best thing is the OA
> installer for
> Lynux. For a windows pleb like me it is the same as an MSI installer
> and
> makes life so much easy. :-)
> 
> Bearing in mind I've only clicked a few buttons so far, the two
> systems
> seems to be functional the same. The only difference I've seen so far
> is the
> 'i' icon on the information button is missing the 'i' in the Ubuntu
> box. I
> even have a shape file that will not display attributes and it is the
> same
> in both systems (it doesn't have a projection file so that may be the
> cause???).
> 
> There is however a performance difference. A polygon shape file with
> around
> 850,000 features take 12 seconds to render in windows and 18 or so
> seconds
> to render in the 8.10 box. The variables are: a newer processor on
> the
> windows box, gvSIG on windows compared to OA on 8.10, and possibly the
> the
> java settings (I chose the standard 512 memory allocation on install).
> The
> other performance thing is that actions are slow in 8.10. For example.
> If I
> use a box select, I can drag a box around my selection and a second or
> so
> passes before the box is drawn. I can click on a window and drag it
> and
> again it takes a second or so before the window is moved. I am using a
> 22"
> screen running at 1680x1050 and thought it might be graphics drivers
> but
> other application windows have no lag. Not sure if this is a 8.10
> issue,
> Java, or there are some performance tweaks I should compare??
> 
> Happy to compare some other features of interest but will share
> comparisons
> of the things I'm using in my course.
> Cheers
> Colin
> 
> Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> > 
> > Please let us know how the OA version works for you on Ubuntu!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > Squidjag wrote:
> >> Hi Jean,
> >> 
> >> Apologies for taking so long to respond. I don't know what I did
> wrong
> >> but
> >> my install ended up the wrong directory and only sudo would run it
> (it
> >> was
> >> owned by root). I had another issue and chose to go back to 8.04.
> Long
> >> story
> >> cut short, I'm trying the OA version 1.1.2 with 8.10 (after a
> couple of
> >> rebuilds). I will try 1.9alpha after I have learned some more
> about
> >> Lynux. I
> >> intend to give it a shot in a Virtual Machine running Windows.
> >> 
> >> Thank you, and to Marcus too, for your assistance.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> 
> >> Colin
> >> 
> >> 
> >> jean hemmi wrote:
> >>> Hi Colin,
> >>> Following Marcus, you have to install in your homedir.
> >>> After, simplest (than managing AWT_TOOLKIT) is to turn off the
> visuals
> >>> effects in "system=>pref=>apparence" 
> >>> gvSIG is running without any problem.
> >>> For the icon, you can create yours, pointing on
> >>> home/xx/gvSIG_1.9/bin/gvSIG.sh
> >>>
> >>> - Jean (running gvsig 1.9alpha on ubuntu 8.10)
> >>>
> >> 
> > 
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