We have a problem... We need a 2.7 LiveCD that works. We will need a 2.8 LiveCD that works.
Currently there is a 2.7 LiveCD running preempt-rt waiting in the wings. That is based on Stretch and so will be usable until June 2020. (ie, one more year) LinuxCNC has historically used RTAI, and this has tended to give better results for software stepping with the parallel port. We have a LiveCD based on Wheezy and RTAI but that is currently somewhat broken (the apt sources list points at files that are no longer there now that Wheezy is a long way past EOL) I have tried to respin that ISO using the archive repositiories. So far that isn't going all that well. Do we switch to the (working) preempt-rt Stretch ISO and abandon RTAI? Has anyone made RTAI work with a Linux version that is currently current? I have tried compiling for kernel 4.9 with Stretch and whilst it compiled and ran, and LinuxCNC compiled against it, nothing useful happened when I tried to run LinuxCNC. What I hoped we could do (urgently) is switch to the preempt-rt stretch image with an alternate download link to a (fixed ) Wheezy RTAI ISO with a disclaimer that we know it to be ancient. I guess we could link to it with a note that "This is so ancient that you will need to edit the apt sources before anything will work" Thinking further ahead: What OS and realtime system should we plan to release 2.8 on? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
