Chris Radek wrote:
> would be good to have a historical overview of all the changes since
Thanks Chris, this may not be the comprehensive feature list I was
looking for (I know the chance of having such a list is small) but it
does allow me to track some of EMC's history. Something that is nice to
know if users start reporting problems with G-codes.
Jon Elson wrote:
> Yes, but the BDI predates EMC2, and a LOT of Sherline packaged systems
> were sold. Many of those users may not have the technical expertise to
> do a complete install of EMC2, and I'll bet those computers sold for
> this use don't have enough memory or CPU speed to install Ubuntu.
> Ray Henry knows, but I believe he told me a couple years ago that about
> 1000 of those packaged systems were sold!
>
I have no idea how many older systems that are not able to run ubuntu
are still alive.
Even my old VIA EM600 board with an 800 MHz C3 and 1 GB, is able to run
ubuntu. Although EMC performance is bad due to embedded video.
But I don't think you need that much technical expertise to do a
complete EMC2 install.
With the Live-CD installing EMC2 is very easy and using stepconf gives a
very fast way of configuring EMC2.
I was able to get everything up and running within one hour - that is
including the configuration of all axes and being able to jog the
machine using Axis.
Ok, I am not a good example 'cause I am(was) a Linux specialist; I used
to do a lot of kernel and device driver programming for porting reasons.
But that was all on embedded systems and I don't know anything about all
these nice user-land features like cups, ssh, ftp and other goodies. I
had to buy a book (a practical guide to ubuntu) in order to configure
these services...
Regards,
Rob
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