I knew when Wheezy went off support I would need to renew the system hardware. The current mobo is an Intel Atom D510, so barely enough to do the job. The new mobo is an ASRock with i5 processor, and a new 6i25 Mesa card. A holiday weekend project, If I can just find that "round-tuit".
--J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” THOMAS JEFFERSON On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 1:39 AM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 01:16, jrmitchellj <jrmitche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Got home & checked the debian-version file, which states 7.11. As I > recall > > that is Wheezy. > > That is only 5 years old. > > That's 5 years since the last update. Wheezy was first released in > 2013 and went out of Long Term Support in 2018. > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ > > Jessie also went out of support in 2018: > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ > > Stretch has LTS until next year: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/ > > LinuxCNC support is summarised in this table : > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MinimumSoftwareVersions > (Look at the bottom row: Master is supported on Stretch, Buster and Focal) > > This isn't an arbitrary decision, it is a considerable effort to > support such a wide range of software versions and has required us to > compile and back-port several packages that LinuxCNC relies on via our > own repository, but that is not tenable going forwards into Python3 > and GTK3. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
