On 10/28/2016 09:50 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I completely missed that announcement, or was there never an > announcement of cessation of support for Lucid outside of that on the > developers list?
We generally do not announce changes in dependencies/OS support in the development branch(es), outside of the developer channels. Once we make a release branch and start stabilizing the code for user consumption, we try really hard to communicate this information. For example, the information about supported platforms for 2.7 is here: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc.html http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html#_alternate_install_methods > I find this a little troubling, as I have at least one machine that I > have not been able to get the live image for Wheezy to run on. It is > an older P4 machine and my attempts to try Wheezy on it have failed > miserably, it boots but then crashes hard when I try to open a > latency test. Unfortunately upgrading the motherboard on this will > be very problematic, as it is using an old ISA bus card to interface > with the cnc machine. I'm sorry to hear about that problem. We tried to ensure that our Wheezy RTAI kernel worked on as many old computers as we could, but clearly there were some that we failed to support. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid was end-of-lifed by the Ubuntu folks in May of 2013. No new software has been added to that distro for many years. The LinuxCNC project has started using newer versions of libraries and tools that are not available in Lucid. Unless you (or someone else) adds back support for the old Ubuntu 10.04 versions, in a way that minimizes impact and doesn't prevent the project from supporting newer versions, i think your only option is to stay on LinuxCNC 2.7 on that machine. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
