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Mac Jesus

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tbh fam I haven't messed with a Linux OS on a home computer in years. Last one I played with was Ubuntu like 3 years ago.

I'm in a class that's teaching Red Hat right now and Red Hat makes a home use OS called Fedora that seems like it would be cool.
Do you know if it can run Geographic Information System programs like ESRI or would I need to use something like QGIS or GRASS or one of those freeware ones I have no experience using.
 

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Do you know if it can run Geographic Information System programs like ESRI or would I need to use something like QGIS or GRASS or one of those freeware ones I have no experience using.
"For Linux: only ArcGIS Server, the ArcGIS Engine Runtime, and ArcReader, but not (likely ever) ArcGIS Desktop. As for Desktop: why in the world would you even want to install that collection of buggy 32-bit COM objects on a nice, clean 64-bit Linux box If you want a Linux desktop with GIS, then the excellent GRASS/QGIS/PostGIS combo will do a lot more than 99% of most GIS users in the workforce will ever need, provided they are not all hung up on storing their spatial data in a proprietary format…"

Thanks InfamousICON.
 

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Hey wait a minute guys. I don't want to see you fight. Both of you can move to Portland and you can just use the royalties owed to me by troythemac @troythemac . There should be millions of money owed to me if you count interest charges. I'll move you both to Portland with that money.