Re[1]: EMC CNC recommendations

["Terry L. Ridder" <terrylr-at-blauedonau.com>]

hello john;

i am not familiar with slackware 7.0 but there
are some general items to look at.

compiler version. gcc -v
kernel version. 
rtlinux-2.2a would be your best choice at the moment.
use either linux-2.2.14 or linux-2.2.15.

i am working on getting linux-2.2.17 & rtlinux-2.3 
to play together. ;-)


On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, John Murphy wrote:

john> 
john> 
john> Hello EMC'ers,
john> 
john> I'm a long time linux hand who is planning on adapting a benchtop
john> mill to CNC.  I currently run slackware 7.0 on the system I'm planning
john> to
john> run EMC on.  I'm pretty new to CNC and was hoping someone could
john> offer some suggestions to make my startup a little easier.  I'll be
john> documenting my process so hopefully others can benefit too.
john> 
john> 1)  Is there any favored or problem linux distribution for EMC/RtLinux?
john>     I'd perfer to use slackware or debian, but I'm open.
john> 
john> 2)  Is a particular version of the RTLinux extensions favored or
john> particulary troublesome?
john> 
john> 3)  I've got a decent way to generate DXF's under linux, anybody
john> have recommendations on producing G code (for EMC) either directly
john> from a linux based CAD or a Linux (or DOS(emu)) DXF to G code 
john> converter?
john> 
john> Thanks,
john> John Murphy
john> 

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Terry L. Ridder
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