-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/10/2013 9:59 AM, Dave wrote: > Michael, what do you mean by "get LinuxCNC into more > distributions"? Do you mean that getting away from Ubuntu will > allow operation on non-PC based hardware? And that will aide in > LinuxCNC's popularity? The number of Linux distributions is huge. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions I tend to > choose distributions based upon what is available.
This is not an x86 vs ARM (or whatever) issue. LinuxCNC is in exactly ZERO distributions. The only fairly easy way to run it at the moment is to download the CD image which includes a fairly ancient and unmaintained kernel. This is definitely a lot better than telling everyone to pull the latest git branch and build, but it's not as easy as "apt-get install linuxcnc" either. I believe the point Michael was making is we are very near being able to add LinuxCNC to the official repositories of various distributions and allow users to install via their standard package management tools. With the unified binary, the same LinuxCNC package will work OK on a standard kernel for things that don't need hard real-time (like the sprinkler system HAL configuration) and with the proper kernel installed you can get hard real-time performance. I know Debian includes a preempt-rt kernel as part of the standard Wheezy packages for x86 and while the performance is a bit worse than RTAI it is more than good enough to control real machines. Xenomai kernels with performance generally on par with RTAI are also becoming much more common (although I have yet to see one in an official repository of a major distribution). The licensing issue goes from being an annoyance to a significant hindrance if it means LinuxCNC cannot be included in a distribution like Debian or Fedora. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG18vAACgkQLywbqEHdNFya8QCfX3U4cS6+X6ne8iMsa+ypZnNr ft4AoLK4PwlsenheL1807gW9SDBeh/iJ =3nRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
