Hello Marco I would echo Daniel's advice in it's entirety, and add the following link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScientists? At the bottom of that page there are links to several distributions specifically built for scientists, but I'm staying in my comfort zone. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) and by coincidence installed QGIS and GRASS on Thursday from the universe repository and have been stepping through the tutorials and sample data since. It was painless. Daniel is right. I had a quick shop through the universe repository and the rest that you seek is there. If a KDE desktop is more familiar, grab a copy of Kubuntu. The official 6.10 (Edgy) version of both will be released on the 26th of October, but you really needn't wait. The release candidates are usually pretty good and catch up automatically with the ordinary updates. Email me off list if you'd like to test drive GRASS under Ubuntu before you invest any time messing with yet another distro. It's not about any particular distro, it's about the joy of rolling your own... Cheers Rick
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