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Originally Posted by BigBike
I tried doing a search about this & kept getting messages about my search not having enough words.?
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Since you didn't specify what your search terms where we can't help with that. If you want to pursue this open up a thread in the "LQ Suggestions & Feedback" forum.
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Originally Posted by BigBike
Do any of the Linux platforms support this software out of the box I.E. Without any more fiddling than whats expected to set the parameters required by each machine application ?
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Short answer: probably not. Long answer: since I know zilch about this all... Searching for "CNC" turns up the forum at
www.cnczone.com. Searching for "Bridgeport Mill" turns up Wikipedia (seems to be a "turret mill"). Searching for "Artsoft Mach3 CNC" finds the site. It is an application that generates "G-code" or "RS-274D" for "numerically controlled machines". Searching for "G-code" turns up stuff like
http://jelinux.pico-systems.com/gcode.html which gives an indication of what the code looks like and
http://www.extrapic.com/mill/mill.html which shows how to generate G-code from an SVG image using Perl. Searching for "sourceforge +RS-274D" turns up the "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Project"
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl/ which refers to a distro called "CoolCNC" which is "a puppybased linuxdistribution that can reproduce itself, runs on most x86 hardware and has realtimecapabilities utilizing rtai".
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Originally Posted by BigBike
I was running two computers on Linux Ubuntu 6. something. I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.1, I believe and really, really horked my desktop.
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Since you didn't specify any errors we shouldn't comment on that.
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It ended up going up in smoke, (Lost the motherboard)
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GNU/Linux does stress HW much more but likely the mobo already was bad.
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I'm ready to try Linux again if it'll support my needs
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Basically GNU/Linux is a "reap what you sow" thing. If you don't invest you are not granted any ROI.
