RE: Unlurking

Best way to go if you want to play with Linux is pick up an old Pentium and
load it on that. Then you can take all the time you want and don't have to
fuss with anything more complex than a workstation install and running a
script.

OK, now that you have de-lurked and spilled the beans, tell us more about
the laser. What is the design, where did you get the info to build it, and
can us mere mortals manage to make one work?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Hughes [mailto:pencad@...]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:06 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Unlurking
>
>
> From: Don Hughes <pencad@...>
>
> Yes, I have been lurking as well. I have read most all the threads on
> Linux and the problems that most list members have experienced and I
> have come to the conclusion that I will not install Linux until this is
> more stable for the inexperienced person to install and we have more
> patches or kernels for the newer versions.
>
> I will have to resolve to to the "Gates" based products for now. I
> wanted to install Linux, but I can not afford to be down at all while I
> try to have many of the helpful list members here help solve problems if
> they were to occur.
>
> Other than that, I am putting together one of Dave Rigotti's controller
> boards and it is a very nice piece of kit thus far. Everything is in
> fine order and well explained, even for me. Elsewhere, I am constructing
> two CO2 lasers to add to the machines here, a 50-60W and a 20-30W. These
> lasers will be home-built units as I have found that this will be the
> more productive route for me to go, believe it or not.
>
> Take care for now all....
>
> Don Hughes
> Vancouver, BC Canada
>
>