On 9/18/19 2:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
Gene,
Thanks for the reply. A little more background. I mentor high school
robotics students. I'm confident I can support it as long as I'm there.
No plans to stop mentoring, but at the same time, I don't want to leave
them with a system that is hard to maintain / reinstall. Sounds like I
should be OK as long as I document the setup well.
Regards,
Andy
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