Thanks for the info. I just kept reading about people changing Ubuntu versions and wondered if that was something I'll have to do. My needs are simple and I think once it's running I'll probably just stay with what I've got.
Thanks to all for the replies. Raymond Julian Kettle River, MN The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) On 05/11/2014 08:32 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > Even running it after the support dies is no problem. > Just keep a copy of all the installation stuff (burn an extra copy or two > just to keep for safetys sake) > and keep running. > > Like XP, if it isn't on a network, no reason to run it unless you are > wanting to > do something different than what it does now (for to fix stuff). > > Bit rot happens (not as much on Linux as M$ products in my experience), so > a re-install occasionally (every 2 to 5 years) if something seems to be > going > amiss is not a bad thing. > > Sorry if I got your current position on LCNC earlier wrong. If it works, > no need to fix it :) > > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:42 PM, rayj <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think you missed the point of my question. Once I have LCNC set up >> and running, why would I want to change the version of Ubuntu and >> encounter the problems associated with that? Is LCNC performance under >> a newer version of Ubuntu better? I'm not typically an early adopter, >> and prefer to avoid the bleeding edge. What would I be giving up if I >> ran LCNC on Ubuntu 10 until the support dies? >> >> Raymond Julian >> Kettle River, MN >> >> The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, >> understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. >> And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, >> egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men >> admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. >> -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) >> >> On 05/11/2014 05:58 PM, Jack Coats wrote: >>> The quick answer is 'that's what works'. A more technical answer is that >>> the libraries used that are needed for real-time-linux to work as needed >>> to drive your steppers properly work well with Ubuntu 10. Also, for ease >>> of use, installing the 'live' image available for LCNC means you don't >> have >>> to handle doing the integration needed for the newer versions of the >> kernel. >>> >>> In Linux, the kernel is the 'big deal' that drives much of the >>> compatibility between >>> versions. The source for all the versions of Linux are freely available >>> for your >>> perusal and even modification. Most of us, me included, loose interest >> at >>> the level >>> needed to tell the real differences on the machine level. >>> >>> For LinuxCNC, our developers are volunteer, and they do a great job of >>> helping >>> address needs of the community. I fully expect a new 'live' image to be >>> made >>> available at sometime with the newer kernel, but for now, the old one >> works >>> well, and good developers keep to the philosophy 'no release before its >>> time'. >>> Also, LCNC ONLY upgrades from Long term support version to the next >>> LTS version. This is to keep down their work load and avoid 'kernel >> churn' >>> that >>> make for excessive not necessarily productive work. >>> >>> If you really want to dig in there are many people that install the >> current >>> version >>> and build LCNC from source on a 'current kernel'. They are more driven >> than >>> I am anymore. >>> >>> I hope this explains on a reasonable level why LCNC live image isn't on a >>> more >>> recient distribution. >>> >>> BTW, you can install a more recent version of Ubuntu, and set up to get >> the >>> appropriate repositories and install LCNC on a newer that Ubuntu 10 >> version. >>> I have done it, it isn't hard. Just read, read, try, if it doesn't work, >>> read more, >>> before asking to many more questions. >>> >>> We are here to help each other at the level each of us can. >>> >>> Enjoy, and keep on CNC'in >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:18 PM, rayj <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm in the process of setting up LCNC and I'll be using Ubuntu 10. I'm >>>> wondering why, once I have it setup, I would want to change to a newer >>>> version of Ubuntu? Do the newer versions offer more functionality in >>>> LCNC? What are the advantages of upgrading? These questions are based >>>> on a setup with a computer dedicated to only running the machine with >> LCNC. >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> -- >>>> Raymond Julian >>>> Kettle River, MN >>>> >>>> The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, >>>> understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. >>>> And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, >>>> egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men >>>> admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. >>>> -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) >>>> >>>> >>>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? 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