GRASS is available on various live CDROMs/DVDs/USB sticks. E.g., Knoppix is a bootable Linux CD, the variants below offer pre-installed GIS software (Live Linux). No need to install anything on the hard disk, you can just run it out of-the-box from the CDROM. The hard disk remains untouched.

USB stick:

slaxGIS: All in one USB stick!

CDROM/DVD:

ArcheOS: The first GNU/Linux distribution for archaeology (screenshots)
FOSS4G Toolkit CD - includes FOSS4G tools such as GRASS-GIS, MapServer, GDAL, OSSIM, QGIS, PostGIS, Mapbuilder, Mapbender, Cartoweb, Appformap, kaMap, Worldkit, Plone, PrimaGIS, and many other FOSS4G tools.
FOSS4G2006: Lausanne/Switzerland GRASS Workshop LiveCD 2006
GISAK - Knoppix based GIS LiveCD
Italian GRASS DVD: Italian Kubuntu/The Open CD derivate with GRASS 6 and QGIS + data + tutorials (the DVD also contains GFOSS software for MS-Windows)
Ominiverdi LiveCD Project: Installable LiveCD with GRASS, QGIS, R, PostGIS, sample data and much more
Poseidon Linux: It contains GRASS, GMT and QGIS (all packages maintained by DebianGIS) as well as SPRING GIS, Terraview, R, Octave, OpenDX, Lyx, Kile, Vis5D, etc.
SOURCEPOLE GIS Knoppix: GRASS, UMN MapServer, MapLab

Last change: $Date: 2008-09-01 03:05:26 -0700 (Mon, 01 Sep 2008) $
$Author: neteler $