Hi Dan I'll try to make this history lesson as short and painless as possible.
The BDI evolved out of an early discussion that we came to call a Brain Dead Install when the EMC was still a part of NIST. It's difficult to imagine now how much trouble it was to get a running version of the EMC software back then. Paul Corner took up the challenge and produced what he officially named the BDI. When we -- fondly called EMC2 -- and He -- fondly called tuxcnc -- parted ways, we kinda let the BDI name slide from our side. Normally we refer to our CD as something like Ubuntu-EMC2. Not nearly as flashy a name but as easy as possible to install. I've still got a bunch of blank CDs that are printed with the BDI image produced for us by Rab Gordon and printed at my expense. I don't use them for public distribution any more but I still like the looks of that disk. I'll bring a stack to fest and if folk want to burn their own nostalgia version they may. There that was not so bad. Class dismissed. Rayh On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 07:33 -0400, Organic Engines wrote: > Hi, > > Ubuntu Live CD. Is that not the BDI? > > I already tried upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 to heron and running the install > EMC script. That crashed. :( > > Well I am trying the new Heron live CD. We will see what that does. > > > Dan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
