Hello,
At the Debian "Reunion" in Hamburg last week I ran into Roland Clobus, who is one of the maintainers of the Debian Live images. He was very much compatible with the idea to have one such image that boots into a real-time Kernel and features LinuxCNC. And then he asked me if there was something like a Debian Blend that would already accommodate LinuxCNC. Blends are lists of packages that are somehow related, so he could auto-prepare an image of all those packages together. There is a technical limit at 4 GB if I understood that correctly. That triggered me to add the linuxcnc-uspace binary to https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/engineering. Does not look too bad :-) We can change that to the discussed "linuxcnc" package name at any time. Now, "engineering" may be a bit wide, with all those FEM (which may be ok) and fluid dynamics (may be superfluous, pun intended) packages coming with it. But I thought we should see how this evolves and can come up with a separate task like "machine control" or so at any time. But we would want all the CAD/CAM tools on it, too. Right? What is kind of neat with any such live image is that they have an additional install-to-hard-drive option that just copies everything from the USB-started image rather than retrieving packages de novo from the archive. And the image is also persistent in that changes done to it can survive reboots. My hunch was that any such wider .iso may help with the decision making to upgrade an existing installation. Have not tried our own .iso images, yet, so I have no exact idea about how redundant any such offer would be. And I guess that the LinuxCNC-.iso images are not fully redundant in their purpose to anything offered by Debian directly. I am also uncertain if any such real-time image would be better for LinuxCNC or Debian - I kind of guess that both would benefit. So, what are your thoughts? Best, Steffen _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
