February’s quick links:

• Via my new colleague (Hi Ben), some tutorials for using QGIS and GRASS as opposed to (or in conjunction with) ArcGIS on an archaeological project

• Andlinux- a different way of accessing linux-based programmes without going through cygwin.  I’ve managed to get GRASS installed, though I haven’t tried it out in anger yet.

• A n00bs guide to installing linux programmes from source. Don’t be scared, it’s not that bad, though I’d add in how to get the command line to send it’s output to a log file for those times when it all goes wrong and you didn’t happen to catch the error as it scrolled past really fast…