I was not a linux person before I found linuxcnc (emc2 at the time). It was an unknown. (and I work in computers). After playing with linuxcnc for a while - I dual-booted my laptop between linuxcnc (ubuntu 6.04 iirc) and XP. Well - I started booting into windows less and less. I got the new laptop - installed the latest ubuntu LTS (12.04 at the time) dual booting between windows 7 and linux. Well - by that time - I rarely booted into windows. I thought unity was crap originally - but thought I would give it a go. I actually like it now.. (don't make fun).
A lot of my testing is done on this laptop - I just got a SSD and decided to give 14.04lts a try. http://imagebin.org/303217 Didn't even install window nativly on the drive.. All linux. (I do have a few virtual machines that I use when needed..) http://imagebin.org/303503 So far (even though it isn't officially realeased until the middle of april) - I love it. This laptop - which alway ran way too hot - runs cool. Everything I have installed/transferred from 12.04 runs.. It too will be a good linuxcnc distro. It wasn't painful at all to install linuxcnc simulator on it. (which did suprise me - but all the work has made things easier..) (Hi - my name is sam - happy linuxcnc user) :) BTW - the unity 'synaptic package manager' is the ubuntu software center. (acts the same) sam On 04/03/2014 10:07 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > For those wanting to install LinuxCNC on Precise 12.04, search the old > messages in the emc-users list for messages with this subject line: > > "LinuxCNC on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 with RTAI" > > Seb made the announcement of a way to install this months ago and it > worked well except for a couple of issues that I ran into that I sent > back to the list in an email. So whoever wants to install LinuxCNC on > 12.04 can do it NOW. No excuses. Read the message string first, then > do the install. > > I'm no Linux Guru (although a wannabe), but there is plenty of > information out there on how to do a git pull and compile of the master. > > Andy, I think you are being nice regarding Unity. Someone smoked too > much of something and then continued to code anyway when they did > Unity. Synaptic Manager does not come along with 12.04, I had to > install it. (A glaring ommision ) > > >>But that seems to require linux-guru work to set up the key. > > Already figured out. The "how to" is in the same message string that I > mentioned above. > > This list is a huge wealth of information. (Thanks everyone! :-) > > Here is a hint on how to get by the fear of screwing up when it comes to > LinuxCNC; Once you get something running, or you make significant > progress, make a backup of your systems hard drive! That way if you fat > finger a command and screw things up, you can revert to what you had > before and not lose your work. > If you are a Newbie, and fear DD (as I did originally) then pull the > hard drive and use a Windows machine to image the hard drive contents to > another drive. The windows program called R-Drive Image works fine to > backup Linux disks. It is as easy to use as Acronis. A full image > backup of LinuxCNC installed on 12.04 takes about 10 minutes. A > restore takes about the same amount of time. > > Dave > > > On 4/3/2014 4:45 PM, andy pugh wrote: >> On 3 April 2014 21:09, Stephen Dubovsky <smdubov...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Andy, >>> You talking about doing it this way? >>> http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ >> Yes, though you can add the same info to the package manager in the GUI. >> >> In Lucid you can find Synaptic from the Administration menu. >> >> In Precise this is probably most easily done (because Unity is just strange) >> by: >> Click Dash Home and look for Synaptic using the search box. (blame >> Canonical for that one, not LinuxCNC). >> (You might also need to install Synaptic from the Ubuntu Software >> Centre. I hadn't realised that) >> >> In the package manager select Settings -> Repositories -> other >> software and "Add". >> Then paste the required line from buildbot.linuxcnc.org >> >> I just tried this and got a sim version on Precise-64. The RT version >> wouldn't install without the RT kernel. >> (itself available using: >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxCNC_On_Ubuntu_Precise ) >> But that seems to require linux-guru work to set up the key. >> (You can use the "deb" line in the Package Manager gui, but it doesn't >> like that it is unsigned, and the GUI key manager wants a file) >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
