Ah I didn't see this before: http://hg.code.sf.net/p/gentoocnc/code

Only the copy of the LCNC tree: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoocnc/

Great! We can help with maintaining this.

On 11/19/2014 02:44 PM, EBo wrote:
> 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)
>>>
>>>
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