On 7 October 2012 19:11, Len Shelton <l...@probotix.com> wrote: > > Most people choose Mach3 because they want to have a single box to run > their CAD, CAM, & control software on, or they are just afraid of Linux. > What is not obvious is that to get it to even be half-way reliable - you > have to strip down Windows to bare bones operation and never run any > other software on that machine - which completely defeats the purpose. > > snip..
Why is that Lcnc users insist on doing everything on one machine? Like surfing the net while the machine is running. I still don't get it. I imagine most Mach users do strip the junk out and use their box for what it's supposed to be: a machine controller. Do users of industrial Fanuc machines complain there is no game port on the side of the box? I think the biggest problem with the acceptance on Lcnc to newbies is trying to get a system up and working. Surely if Lcnc developers took a single (older) Ubuntu version, or whatever package, and kept upgrading Lcnc to that only, then there would be no problem of the latest 2GHz machines and up, not meeting the latency requirements. The latest version of Lcnc should be able to run?? on almost any hardware because the basic requiements have not changed since the first stepper systems came out. Admittedly, this does come from personal frustration, because I've gone through the schlep of converting at least 6 W$ PC's to Linux and running EMC, but none of them every had good enough latency. So I (more schlep) convert back to XP and run Mach with no problems. My firm belief is that Lcnc, Mach, and whoever else, should be aiming for headless systems. Stick the control box in the cabinet, and it's just.. a machine controller. Just.. like every industrial system. Then you play games and surf and run cad programs on the linked, desk PC. Regards Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
