On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 14:19 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote: > Someone either on Ubuntu mail group or EMC can't remember at the moment > gave me this link to puppy Linux install with Emc looks pretty complex > but may be doable for me. Anyway even If I don't use this box the one I > do use won't likely be that much faster and newer. I don't want to use > the box for anything but emc as I have a fast box in the house that is > set up for video editing so it's pretty hot stuff or was 3 years ago. I > would like to use ubuntu, maybe pull out some of the unneeded programs > for a little more space. See about that!! > Doug > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emc_Puppy
The problem really isn't with space or the quantity of EMC2 or other software that's laying around on a PC. Sure in a traditional embedded system you want to minimize the software footprint but that doesn't really save computing time nor does it translate to increased EMC2 ability. That is done mostly for cost. You didn't say whether you were thinking of running steppers or servos or sim. JonE ran a servo system for years on a 100 MHz PC and an ISA Servo-To-Go card and was completely satisfied with the results. I ran steppers on an overclocked Gateway 166 for quite a while but I wasn't asking for many steps per second -- something less than 4k. Step rate can be really limited by the speed of these older boxes. The only current complete releases are the Ubuntu. Short of that you will have to roll your own if you want current abilities. I do roll my own but I don't recommend it for a first time. Since you've got a fast box in the house, try downloaded and burning the 6.06 disk and see if it will boot that E-Machines PC. If not, boot that fast box with it and play. That costs you nothing. HTH Rayh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
