On Wednesday 18 September 2019 12:46:15 Andy Howell wrote: > Our high school has a couple gantry based CNC routers running version > 2.5. From perusing the list, it seems like 2.8 is fairly stable even > though its not released. I've got a pendant and some other add-ons I > want to install. I'd rather put the effort into getting them working > on a new system than battling with the old one. > > This would be a fresh install, on a new hard disk. If I run into > issues I need to be able to fall back quickly. > > I'm comfortable with compiling from source if need be, but was hoping > that there is an ISO out there that I could use. > > I installed in a VM for testing purposes going off > https://forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc/36413-linuxcnc-debian >-9-stretch-uspace-2-7-to-2-8. I ended up with 2.9 instead of 2.8. I can > grab the 2.8 branch from git. > > I don't have a specific need for 2.8 over 2.7. I want to avoid > installing 2.7 and having 2.8 come out soon after. > > Are there any reasons I should not attempt 2.8? > > Is there anything I can do to help nudge 2.8 along? > > Thanks, > > Andy
I'd not have any 2nd thoughts about 2.9, its master, and with only 3 or 4 exceptions over the last several years I've been running master, what ever version it claimed, with relatively little drama. Generally the progress has been forward, and If I've had a problem, the fix has been by return email on this list. A few hours at most. So have at it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
