On 2/2/2016 2:08 PM, Rafael wrote: > Why use this, why not use that? This is precisely why LinuCNC has no > traction in commercial products. Unless things have changed in the last > 2 months, you cannot find a single CNC machine or good kit on the market > that comes with LinuxCNC. Incorrect. Tormach sells many machines that are operated with LinuxCNC. In fact they moved away from windows based controls because of stability issues.
> There are two or 3 that mention LinuxCNC as a > possibility but they do not support it. Why? The main reason people don't want to deal with LinuxCNC is because they know nothing, or very little about it. And for that matter they don't want to know anything about it. Most of the non technical and even most of the technical world knows windows they don't know Linux. Even more people are afraid of change. Especially when it is something that they don't really understand (Computers). Most of us on this list that use LinuxCNC are very computer literate and are not nearly as scared by a computer challenge. If we were we would not be on this list in the first place. If you look at any forum involving mach or any other windows CNC controller they say that LinuxCNC is difficult to set up. If you are someone looking for a CNC controller and you see that you need to use an OS that you don't know with a piece of software that is difficult to set up what are you going to use? Of course this misinformation is biased and ignorant as probably the person posting it has never even tried LinuxCNC or they did a half hearted try at best. After using both mach and LinuxCNC, I don't agree with that statement at all. LinuxCNC is just as easy as Mach to set up. (and several hundred dollars less expensive) As a manufacturer you are going to supply and support the product that appeals to the most people. Any Linux software will not appeal to more people than windows software because msoft has the the majority of the world brainwashed. However if you are supplying a real production machine that needs to be reliable day in and day out you should be supplying LinuxCNC because the Linux OS is much more robust and reliable than any Windows OS. The biggest issue with LinuxCNC as it currently stands is that for production shops to want to use it there needs to be a 24/7 support and On Site Support for the machine and the controller. This could come from the machine manufacturer but LinuxCNC.org is not able to provide the On Site Troubleshooting support that production shops need. Production shops prefer controls like Fanuc etc that have this type of support (at a huge cost). Machine downtime is big money to a production shop. Just 2 cents from a hillbilly engineer. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
