This MacBook appears to handle the Linux version of the Pi OS quite well. Other than an inability to SSH into it.
Some of the list members have in the past downloaded through git or whatever the LinuxCNC files required to update the Pi to run LinuxCNC. After all, it's just a program that runs on Linux. So that program needs to be compiled on the Linux Host or cross compiled on a much faster system with the Pi hardware as the target. Ie. If you are compiling on an AMD 64 bit processor the compiler needs to compile for the multi-core ARM processor on the Pi. In this case it needs to compile on the AMD processor in the MacBook. That doesn't change any of the user interface (which is Pi based). As long as the Pi interface has Python etc. it should be possible to install LinuxCNC. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Thaddeus Waldner [mailto:thadw...@gmail.com] > Sent: October-02-22 6:57 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Making ApplePi > > I tried to set up an old (core 2 duo, circa 2007) mac mini as a dev platform > using the LinuxCNC 2.8 iso. Axis > failed to run due to lack of proper graphics support in the OS. > > > > On Oct 2, 2022, at 2:27 AM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > > > ?I have the Pi OS running on it. Can't SSH into it yet. Seems certificate > > exchange is problematic. > > > > I believe what I have running on the Pi4 is > > 2020-09-08-linuxcnc-2.8.0-pi4.img > > Likely I should update that. > > > > But I want the Pi OS on the laptop and then want to be able to install > > LinuxCNC to essentially have the Pi4 > user interface but also be able to run LinuxCNC. > > > > Just not sure how. > > John > > > > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users [mailto:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net] > >> Sent: October-02-22 12:11 AM > >> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > >> Cc: Gregg Eshelman > >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Making ApplePi > >> > >> Intel CPU Macs can have a life well extended past their lack of OS X > >> support from Apple. Install Linux, or > >> Windows, or some other Intel compatible OS. I picked up a 2011 Mac Mini > >> with a bad 500 gig hard drive, > got > >> a dual hard drive kit and a 2TB drive, put that and another 500 gig drive* > >> I had in it, then made it an Open > >> Media Vault server. > >> > >> *I pulled it from a laptop a few years ago with a password on it. Finally > >> got around to setting up an old PC > with > >> XP and the SATA controller in legacy mode so I could run password removal > >> software. After all that it was > one > >> click of a "remove password" button. I'd tried everything I could come up > >> with and got nowhere, figured I > >> must have at least wiped the data on the drive. Nope, it was 100% all > >> there. > >> > >> On Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 10:25:56 PM MDT, Chris Albertson > >> <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> The Mac has an Ethernet port, does it not?? You say it is an older Mac, so > >> it likely does have one.? ? Some of the newer Macs lack the port, and you > >> have to buy a USB-C to Ethernet dongle. > >> > >> If it has the built-in RJ45 jack simply connect it. If not buy the Dongle > >> on Amazon. > >> > >> At some point, you will want to install Linux on the Mac.? Running from the > >> USB drive is very slow. > >> > >> It is odd to say the Mac acts like a Raspberry Pi.? No. Any computer boots > >> to Linux looks like a Linux PC > >> > >>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 9:03 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> I used my wife's old laptop now no longer supported by Apple. Even the > >>> battery needs to be replaced again if I can find one.? It's essentially > >>> trash. > >>> > >>> Unless I make ApplePi.? Insert USB stick with the ISO.? Answer questions > >>> etc. And then reboot into Raspian looking just like a Pi. > >>> > >>> Now the question.? How would one go about adding LinuxCNC connected to a > >>> 7i92H > >>> > >>> John > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
