On Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:15:59 AM EST Andy Howell wrote: > Hello, > > I maintain a gantry style CNC router for our high school robotics > team. Tonight our hard disk died. I need to decide what version to > install. From reading the list, it looks like 2.9 is close to release. > My preference would be to go with that. Any reason I should go with > 2.8.2 instead? > First off, replace that spinning rust with an SSD, they are 5 to 6x faster than spinning rust. A 240Gigger is around 45 bucks and its plenty big enough. I have done that to all of my machines, one is even running on a 4 yo 60 gigger. zero problems.
And yes, 2.9-pre is solid. > The machine was running 2.5. Time for an upgrade either way. > > Thanks, > > Andy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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, 1940) 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
