Just to add a bit to what Ray and Emory said here is a link to the new Getting Started Guide that might help you if you need to download the 6.06 version on a slow connection... some scrounging around to find a slighly faster computer would help.
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/Getting_Started.html Here is a link on how one person adapted Puppy to EMC http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emc_Puppy and there might be some more examples on the wiki site. John On 31 Aug 2008 at 10:22, Doug Pollard wrote: > Hello, I have an old e-machine I would like to use Emc on. It is 266 > Mhtz with 250 ram. I don't know if I can run Ubuntu 8.04 or not, > might be kind of close. I thought if not maybe xubuntu or puppy Linux > or even damn small Linux. I don't intend to run anything on it except > Emc. > I have just started reading tutorials and help on Emc and will > likely find the info I'm looking for there. In the mean time I > appreciate some opinion on what I am wanting to do. > Thanks much, > > Doug > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
