Re: RED HAT LINUX QUESTION

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Doug

If you have never used linux before, you may wish to download
the BDI and go that route. It is RedHat V6.0 and once you get the
hang of it you can upgrade to 7.2 and do all of the compiling and
installing. Or by then Paul may have his BDI for RTAI and v7.2

Bill
>
>
> Hi Doug
>
> There are two realtime patches that will work under RH7.2.
> 1) RTLinux from FSM Labs which uses the 2.4.4 kernel.
> http://www.rtlinux.org
>
> 2) RTAI which will work with most kernels up to 2.4.17.
> http://rtai.org
>
> EMC will compile with either one. My personal recommendation is rtai,
> although this does require some fiddling with compilers to get it to work
> properly.
> Currently, I'm working on a Brain Dead Install using rtai and a 2.4.16
kernel
> based on RH7.2. If you need any help, feel free to contact me off list.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
> On Saturday 16 February 2002 3:50 pm, Douglas Freelove wrote:
> > Dear Sirs
> >
> >
> > Douse RED hat VERSION 7.2 LINUX need the Real Time patch to run EMC and
if
> > so could you send me in the right direction or explain the process? I'm
> > very new at this and just started researching this topic and have never
> > used Linux or EMC.
> >
> >
> >
> >                                   Thank You Doug Freelove DFreelove-at-msn
> > .com
>