You can run most versions of linux without the overhead of the gui by starting the system in run level 3. The gui usually starts in run level 5. You then have to figure out how to control LinuxCNC, maybe from a remote computer (I think some users have done this).
Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia < leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could it be possible to use the server install of ubuntu 10.04 on an old > pc? Because that way you only install the minimal components without the > GUI. I've done it before with 8.04 to have the minimum components loaded, I > used to load the GUI after that, but I think that an option would be to use > keystick to not overload the old pc. > > Is it possible to load keystick without Gnome or KDE installed? I've never > tried but it could be a solution for using 10.04 with older machines. > > > > > 2014-05-31 21:01 GMT-03:00 dave <dengv...@charter.net>: > > > Well, I really hate to admit it but my LCNC machines are running on a > > 600 Mhz Seattleboard. It's been down for two years now. Not the > > computer just the belleville stack for the tool clamp. Real bear to get > > at. ... I need to bribe someone. ;-) > > > > Other machine is a cinci contourmaster ... with a Duron 1200. Slow and > > often the nml fails. What it knows internally and the display do not > > alway coincide. > > > > I do have a 525 waiting in the halls. > > > > One of these days when I find a 'real' roundtoit I'll get it done. > > > > Dave > > > > On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 18:14 -0500, rayj wrote: > > > What's everyone's experience running LCNC on older computers. I'm > > > talking about just the basic 3 axis control. I have several old > > > computers, Win 98 is functional, XP not really. Several of them have > > > pretty good latency numbers, so I'm exploring running LCNC instead of > an > > > old DOS based program called DeskNC. > > > > > > Anyone with any experience, succeeded, failed, or in between, I'd be > > > interested in hearing about it. > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > > www.restlet.com/download > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > -- > *Leonardo Marsaglia*. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > www.restlet.com/download > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
