Well the intention is not to judge anything in comparison.. Both has
their own good and bad sides im guessing.
Would still be interesting out of a feature perspective to know what
makes them differ.
I do think machinekit is the way togo, i have found LinuxCNC being tad
bit outdated in several ways when compiling and
modifying the code in it. And machinekit seems to have breathed some
fresh air into it out of that regard.
And well i have been fiddling with LinuxCNCon and off for the past 6
years tech knowledge no issues, compiling and modifying it
for different hardware no issues there either. I actually got both
machinekit and linuxcnc running on the lattepanda as of late yesterday.
Running them under Linuxmint 18, thats Ubuntu 16 if i remember correctly
it was not that "plug and play" as it could have been.
But really not an issue either if you have some basic knowledge of Linux
overall.
I was just curious.. excuse my curiosity.. Both machinekit and linuxcnc
communitys seems to take offense at straight forward questions
regarding the code base is there so much prestige invested in them ??
really.. its just code.. it should stand up to a straight down comparison
to see what fits the individual why is that so hard to understand.. and
no i dont talk about mach don't know how that could even be compared.
But apprently i should stop being curious. It's better to just accept
things as is and never question anything. Thats the way to go.. *the
stupid way*
Den 2016-12-06 kl. 10:33, skrev [email protected]:
On 05/12/16 22:24, [email protected] wrote:
Is there a good page for illuminating the differences between
linuxcnc and machinekit.. how far apart are they these days since the
first fork ??
No, I don't think anyone is interested in being judged in comparison
to linuxcnc (or Mach for that matter)
You can diff the repos and look at the documentation for specific
features / differences.
Is any of the core parts of linuxcnc project maintained, like the
updated motion planner , new mesa drivers and such?
The new tp planner was not in linuxcnc when Machinekit was forked. It
is in both projects.
What 'new' mesa drivers are you referring to?
Machinekit has mesa support and even has support for Soc FPGA boards
emulating Mesa boards which is unique to Machinekit.
I'm heavily consdering swapping linuxcnc for machinekit on my
lattepanda + mesa card project.. Because the old linuxcnc is horrible
to get working and perform well.
You are not going to find Machinekit any easier if you don't have the
technical knowledge.
There is no distro to install and the full images available are for
BBB and Rpi 2-3 only.
By the look of the lattepanda it was designed as a windoze 10 board
and any linux support is fledgeling.
The fact that it is an Atom processor does not fill me with joy, Intel
actually produced some of these for tablets etc
that were so tied into windoze, you could not run linux on them.
It also uses UEFI boot, with no obvious info as to whether this can be
disabled, further restricting choice and complicating matters.
A quick search leaves me uncertain what linux system is actually
supported, Ubuntu 16 does not seem to run on it.
There might be Debian Jessie support, but the link just takes you to a
blurb about the Debian distro.
The LUbuntu link is dead.
The libraries required by machinekit mean you would need Debian Wheezy
or Jessie preferably, to be able to use the packages available.
Looks like a technically interesting project, but if you actually want
to cut metal in particular, putting the Mesa board(s) into a x86 desktop
is a much easier solution.
regards
But if it lacks features or differs to much.. then that would be
non-benficial. =)
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