On 06/12/16 10:05, Andreas Pettersson
wrote:
Well the intention is not to judge anything in comparison..
Both has their own good and bad sides im guessing.
Would still be interesting out of a feature perspective to know
what makes them differ.
I do think machinekit is the way togo, i have found LinuxCNC
being tad bit outdated in several ways when compiling and
modifying the code in it. And machinekit seems to have breathed
some fresh air into it out of that regard.
And well i have been fiddling with LinuxCNCon and off for the
past 6 years tech knowledge no issues, compiling and modifying
it
for different hardware no issues there either. I actually got
both machinekit and linuxcnc running on the lattepanda as of
late yesterday.
Running them under Linuxmint 18, thats Ubuntu 16 if i remember
correctly it was not that "plug and play" as it could have been.
But really not an issue either if you have some basic knowledge
of Linux overall.
I was just curious.. excuse my curiosity.. Both machinekit and
linuxcnc communitys seems to take offense at straight forward
questions
regarding the code base is there so much prestige invested in
them ?? really.. its just code..
I am not taking offence, the 'straight forward question' is just so
general with no advantage to anyone to research, it has not been
done.
This a collaborative open source project, no one makes money from
it, so don't have much interest in evangelising it 'advantages'.
If you have specific questions, they are much easier to cater for.
it should stand up to a straight down comparison
to see what fits the individual why is that so hard to
understand.. and no i dont talk about mach don't know how that
could even be compared.
But apprently i should stop being curious. It's better to just
accept things as is and never question anything. Thats the way
to go.. *the stupid way*
Is there a good page for illuminating the differences
between linuxcnc and machinekit.. how far apart are they
these days since the first fork ??
No, I don't think anyone is interested in being judged in
comparison to linuxcnc (or Mach for that matter)
You can diff the repos and look at the documentation for
specific features / differences.
Is any of the core parts of linuxcnc project
maintained, like the updated motion planner , new mesa
drivers and such?
The new tp planner was not in linuxcnc when Machinekit was
forked. It is in both projects.
What 'new' mesa drivers are you referring to?
Machinekit has mesa support and even has support for Soc FPGA
boards emulating Mesa boards which is unique to Machinekit.
I'm heavily consdering swapping linuxcnc for machinekit on
my lattepanda + mesa card project.. Because the old linuxcnc
is horrible to get working and perform well.
You are not going to find Machinekit any easier if you don't
have the technical knowledge.
There is no distro to install and the full images available are
for BBB and Rpi 2-3 only.
By the look of the lattepanda it was designed as a windoze 10
board and any linux support is fledgeling.
The fact that it is an Atom processor does not fill me with joy,
Intel actually produced some of these for tablets etc
that were so tied into windoze, you could not run linux on them.
It also uses UEFI boot, with no obvious info as to whether this
can be disabled, further restricting choice and complicating
matters.
A quick search leaves me uncertain what linux system is actually
supported, Ubuntu 16 does not seem to run on it.
There might be Debian Jessie support, but the link just takes
you to a blurb about the Debian distro.
The LUbuntu link is dead.
The libraries required by machinekit mean you would need Debian
Wheezy or Jessie preferably, to be able to use the packages
available.
Looks like a technically interesting project, but if you
actually want to cut metal in particular, putting the Mesa
board(s) into a x86 desktop
is a much easier solution.
regards
But if it lacks features or differs to much..
then that would be non-benficial. =)
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