On Jun 10 2013 11:31 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > Am 10.06.2013 um 22:12 schrieb Karl Schmidt <[email protected]>: > >> I would recommend focusing on getting into Debian first - there are >> about a dozen distributions that >> draw off of Debian besides Ubuntu and the Debian gate keepers make >> sure things actually conform to a >> real deb package. > .. >> There is a second reason to get in Debian first - CNC systems need >> to be utterly stable - Ubuntu is >> focused on being bleeding edge. Debian stable provides a sane system >> for 'production' systems. > > seconded - Debian should be the prime target. Best infectiousness and > less danger of veering into bloat/feature creep space. > > for instance, we'll likely get it out of the Mint package stream for > free eventually, which would be a big plus; you never know, maybe > even > an arm build > > there's another reason: I never understood what the value of 'Ubuntu > packaged kernels' actually is, and that is a major work item, very > distro-specific and of unclear upside; in the case of the xenomai > 3.5.7 kernel John eventually dropped the Ubuntu specific patches and > we still have to see an issue
I've already made Gentoo portage ebuilds, and have play with them for years. Once I either have the need or inclination of puting them out on the Sunrise overlay then they will be public. So you can choose how much or little blote you care to (not) have. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
