John, It is a bit more complicated that that. Portage, Gentoo's package manager, allows people to design and manage their own packages and integrate them into the system (with full dependencies). We are not forking or copying LinuxCNC, but setting up a series of integrated build packages so that you can specify what type of kernel you want built (RTAI, XEN, Preempt, etc.) and then compile the package on top of that. For the most part it is just to aid building and maintaining LCNC on a Gentoo base.
All that being said, the intent is to set up a live gentoo based distro (on CD/DVD/USB) which will run a demo version out of the box, and then do an install if you want. We have a number of experimental systems that we are interested in playing with -- including Li's FPGA-NURBS, the BeagleBone, UDOO, and others. An additional nice thing about portage is that we can manage any special patches and/or build procedures for special hardware. EBo -- On Nov 19 2014 1:21 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > Interesting. GentooCNC is a sourceforge project, run by our own ebo > and > "fafek". The description says: > > GentooCNC is a Gentoo based Linux didtribution designed to > support hard > real-time control of equipment such as industrial machine tools, > 3D printers, > laser cutters, robots, and coordinate measuring machines using > LinuxCNC. > GentooCNC is designed to target embedded platforms such as the > BeagleBone, > Mini2440, as well as conventional desktop platforms > > The downloadable files appear to be versions of LinuxCNC, like > > linuxcnc-2.6.3_pre20141017.tar.gz > > And the COPYING file is directly from LinuxCNC. > > Seems like the project is basically a way to install LinuxCNC on > Gentoo. > Not sure if there are (or will be) significant code differences, or > if it is just > a way to package things for Gentoo. > > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014, at 02:38 PM, andy pugh wrote: >> On 19 November 2014 19:21, Kyle Evans <kvan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > GentooCNC guys, >> > >> > I'm trying to get layman to manage your overlay. >> >> Do you have the right mailing list? None of what you said meant >> anything at all to me. >> (It might make sense to others) >> >> >> -- >> atp >> If you can't fix it, you don't own it. >> http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server >> from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and >> Dashboards >> with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & >> more >> Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, >> FREE >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-developers mailing list >> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
