I would have to agree, that hardy support should not be dropped. We are dealing with machine controllers here, not merely consumer PC's that *have* to have (or so people seem to think) the latest everything every 6 months or sooner.
It makes sense to me to not force people running good stable systems on older hardware to have to update the whole OS - which might not run as well or have as good of latency etc - just to get bugfixes and newer features. FWIW, My router table is running Hardy even though I put together the kernel and live CD for Lucid. Haven't had a good reason to update the OS and a lot of reasons not to yet (maybe "lazy" is one? :) ) When I go to route stuff on it, I don't care what version of Linux or ubuntu it's running - I just want it to cut parts. Moses On 08/17/2013 12:42 PM, Schooner wrote: > >>> Continuing to support Ubuntu 8.04 is fool_hardy_, and I propose we stop. > > No pun intended I assume! > > >>- AFAICT, there is only a very small handful of users still running >>> LinuxCNC on Hardy. I'd wager that those users are quite conservative, >>> and aren't interested in new features for LinuxCNC anyway. > > Sorry John, sweeping generalisation and I think wrong > > I have no interest in running Ubuntu 8.04, it is rubbish, but I have P4 > workshop machines with very low latency that will not even load the 10.04 CD > The other machine has a special x86 based chip and whilst it will run 10.04, > the single processor build for 8.04 is far better > > I run 2.6~pre on all of them > > I know there are quite a lot of people still using 8.04, for just this > reason, because I point lots of them to it on the forum when they try 10.04 > on old hardware and get poor latency results. > They almost always get far better results with it. > > All I would ask is that whatever parts of the unified-build-candidate-1 rely > upon libraries that are not available to 8.04, can be de-selectable from > configure. > > There is no need to maintain debs beyond 2.5.3 for sure, but users should > still be able to build a RIP install from the 2.6 sources. > > (This has probably prompted me to try building a single processor targeted > 3.xx kernel on debian, as a contingency for my older hardware) > > regards > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! > It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. > Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
