Gentlemen,
congratulations to the announcement of 2.6!
I was very pleased to find may name on the list of contributers although
I must confess that, besides participating lively, but passively in the
discussions ("lurking"), my one and only contribution so far was the
translation of a couple hundred error messages into German, more than a
year ago. Big honour. Since I have no commercial application for
LinuxCNC, just a few machines used for hobby purposes, it's mostly
platonian love for IT applications leading me to LinuxCNC and the
discussions on this list. I have installed a CD version of EMC2 and made
some sample millings, but did my real CNC milling work "by foot" so far,
using EAGLE for the coordinates, Excel for the scaling, Word for syntax
structure and forming Gcode files and a free sample software, including
a 3D traverse planner, for execution. Lathe work was done very
effectively with home made Basic programs, a 286 PC and an old
Parker-Hannifin IEEE stepper driver, but that was long ago.
But being mentioned, reminded me to take up this translating again, if I
only knew where to get into that. Translating was relatively easy to do,
so I could take it up now after some disturbances I encountered
meanwhile. To be honest, translating into Bavarian would be even easier
sometimes as Bavarian often has a concise way to express things most
like English has (yes, Michael, Austrian and especially Tyrolian is
linguistically a branch of Bavarian). The reason, as I see it, is that
English and Bavarian have close common roots in Midle High German from
which they are descendants, as opposed to today's High German which was
composed rather artificlally, beginnig about matirn Luther's time. The
spaces provided for the messages, as I remember, are sometimes a little
short limited so High German text is sometimes hard to fit into them
(frequently, I felt the urge to choose entirely different language
structures or even re-arrange the error messages logically instead of
translating). As Franz von Kobell put it:
"Der Preusse spricht den gesamten Denkvorgang mit, der Bayer gibt nur
das Ergebnis bekannt."
"The Prussian (meaning: the High German speaker) pronounces the entire
way of his thoughts, the Bavarian only the result."
But it would be a pain for the rest of German speaking people reading
messages in Bavarian, so ...
Would someone please tell me how to enter the LinuxCNC site in order to
contribute some more translations?
Easter Greetings from Bavaria
Peter Blodow
PS: Don't get me wrong, I'm not a native Bavarian, but of Viking descent!
Am 18.04.2014 07:11, schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky:
> I am pleased to announce LinuxCNC 2.6.0-pre1. This is the first in a
> series of pre-releases intended to shake out bugs, in preparation for
> the next stable release of LinuxCNC.
>
> If you are currently running LinuxCNC 2.5, you will not get
> automatically upgraded to 2.6. If you want to stay on 2.5, no action is
> needed.
>
> LinuxCNC 2.6 is available for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and Ubuntu 12.04
> Precise. LinuxCNC 2.6 is not available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.
>
> To upgrade an existing LinuxCNC 2.5 install on Lucid or Precise, see the
> instructions on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.6
>
> If you use a Mesa 7i64 or a Mesa 8i20, pay special attention to the
> "Changes to your configuration" section, as some HAL configuration has
> changed.
>
> That wiki page also contains instructions for making a fresh install of
> LinuxCNC 2.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.
>
>
> New features since LinuxCNC 2.5:
>
> * reorganized sample configs to improve clarity
> * .ini files now support a '#INCLUDE' directive
>
> * GUI: Axis: allow feed rate override display to go up to 9999%
> * GUI: Axis: XYUV foam cutter support
> * GUI: touchy: wheel scrolling of program start point
>
> * GUI: add new gmoccapy gui
> * GUI: add new gscreen gui
>
> * gladevcp: lots of new widgets
>
> * HAL: halcmd now supports tilde expansion
> * HAL: halscope now shows the first derivative of probe channels
>
> * HAL: stepgen now supports 16 channels (up from 8 in 2.5)
> * HAL: gs2 VFD driver now supports configurable acceleration and
> deceleration, and has support for a braking resistor
> * HAL: halui now switches to manual mode automatically when the user
> requests jogging
>
> * HAL: new drivers:
> * VFS11 VFD
> * Delta VFD-B
> * General Mechatronics 6 axis motion control card
> * xhc-hb04 USB jog pendant
>
> * HAL: new components:
> * mux_generic: generic multiplexer
> * lincurve: linearization curve lookup table
> * matrix_kb: matrix keyboard driver
> * mb2hal: generic Modbus-to-HAL interface
> * orient: works with M19 to control spindle position
> * sim-encoder: simulate an encoder, for useful for testing
> * thcud: torch height control for plasma
>
> * Hostmot2: add support for 5i24 AnyIO board
> * Hostmot2: add support for buffered SPI
> * Hostmot2: add support for the Mesa 7i65 (bspi 8xServo)
> * Hostmot2: add support for uarts
> * Hostmot2: add support for serial encoders (ssi, biss, and fanuc)
> * Hostmot2: add support for table-mode stepgens
> * Hostmot2: add support for DPLL
> * Hostmot2: detect & report encoder quadrature error
> * Hostmot2: improved support for encoders (configurable filter rate)
> * Hostmot2: improved support for muxed encoders (configurable skew
> rate)
>
> * interp: G-codes can now be remapped
> * interp: added read-only named parameters (#<_x> etc)
> * interp: added M19 (orient spindle) and an orient component
> * interp: added python subroutines
>
> * motion: coolant and lube are now user-controllable at all times
> * motion: rapid velocity now ignores feed override setting
>
> * removed freqgen component, it's been replaced by stepgen's
> velocity mode
>
>
> Many thanks to everyone who tested and contributed bug reports during
> the 2.6 development cycle, and to the folks who contributed improvements
> to the docs and code:
>
> Alex Joni
> Anders Wallin
> Andy Pugh
> Bence Kovacs
> Ben Jackson
> Chris Morley
> Chris Radek
> Dewey Garrett
> Eric Johnson
> Erkka Koski
> Francis Tisserant
> Frederic Rible
> Janos Bujtar
> Jeff Epler
> Jofey Jian
> John Kasunich
> John Thornton
> Jon Elson
> Kim Kirwan
> k.t. chan
> Les Newell
> Matt Shaver
> Michael Geszkiewicz
> Michael Haberler
> Norbert Schechner
> Peter Blodow
> Russell Brown
> Sebastian Kuzminsky
> Victor Rocco
> Yishin Li
>
>
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