Way back at the start of this email, someone was talking about different DEs. I personally have been running Bodhi linux, an Ubuntu derived distro, for a few years. The lead Dev recently posted a blog about installing moksha, an Enlightenment derivative, on Debian Jessie. Enlightenment does things differently, but, it is quite light on resources. I believe something like lxde is comparable.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Todd Zuercher <zuerc...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > I've been running quite large carving and engraving g-code files directly > off a NAS share for quite some time without many problems (before that it > was on a Novel server, that was a little more problematic). The only > problems were usually caused by major network glitches that often resulted > in taking down the whole Linuxcnc client (but I can't say that has happened > since switching to the NAS share). > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Cole" <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:10:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Desktops and OS's > > Second try... I think that my Avast Antivirus is battling with Gmail's > security certificates and I lost :-( . > > Do you run the Gcode file off the NAS server directly or do you copy the > file to the local machine. > I thought there was a problem doing that reliably with LinuxCNC. > Something to do with network latency when reading the file which would > cause LinuxCNC to fault. > > Dave > > > On 11/4/2015 8:35 AM, Jim Craig wrote: > > I have a raid NAS that I send all of my gcode to. Then I open it > > directly from the NAS into LinuxCNC. Then I don't have to worry about > > what machine has the latest code etc. The latest is always on the NAS. > > And it it is backed up. > > > > I am going to have to see if I can get my machine computer to print to > > my network printer. That will be nice. Have not been able to get it to > > work so far. > > > > Thanks for the tips. > > > > Jim > > > > On 11/4/2015 7:27 AM, John Thornton wrote: > >> If he is doing that from a Windoze computer you can configure the right > >> click Send To for each machine so it's a one click op to send the file. > >> > >> JT > >> > >> On 11/4/2015 7:16 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > >>> It was an absolute requirement that I got that to work, probably like > >>> yours, we now have multiple machines in the shop running Linuxcnc, and > >>> thumb drives are easy to lose, so I have all the machines networked > >>> together, so the guy in the office that makes the programs, can drop > the > >>> finished g code program right into the nc_files folder in the > respective > >>> machine, right from his desk. > >>> > >>> > >>> Rick > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 11/4/2015 8:09 AM, John Thornton wrote: > >>>> Sweet, and it works! What a PITA to have to do this just to get an OS > to > >>>> do basic things. I'm still hoping someone will chime in that has > built a > >>>> real time kernel for Linux Mint so I can try that. > >>>> > >>>> JT > >>>> > >>>> On 11/4/2015 6:55 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > >>>>> Now you should be able to right click on the the folder icon you want > >>>>> tot share, see the "Share" tab, and be able to click down through and > >>>>> setup folder sharing on your network for that respective folder, > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On 11/4/2015 7:51 AM, John Thornton wrote: > >>>>>> Hi Rick, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I followed the directions for adding folder sharing to Thunar but > don't > >>>>>> see any difference. What is is supposed to do? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> JT > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On 11/3/2015 9:59 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > >>>>>>> John, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Attached are some of my notes that I have found to be working in > >>>>>>> regards to sharing over the network on Debian. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> You may have already tried these, but this is what I have found. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Rick > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On 11/3/2015 10:44 AM, John Thornton wrote: > >>>>>>>> Samba is installed... > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On 11/3/2015 9:26 AM, andy pugh wrote: > >>>>>>>>> On 3 November 2015 at 15:19, John Thornton <j...@gnipsel.com> > wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> Networking is also hosed up on my Debian computers and try as > >>>>>>>>>> I might I can't share files as freely around my LAN with the > Debian > >>>>>>>>>> computers. > >>>>>>>>> You nay need to install Samba, it isn't there by default. 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