RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC and Linux versions RedHat vs Mandrake

I think my point is that all the support and knowledge base of the people
developing and actually using EMC is on RedHat. If people want advice and
help in setting up EMC the answer is install RedHat. If someone wants to
make it their hobby to see how hard they can make an EMC install and still
not be successful than load it on anything you want.

Basically, I will do anything I can to help a person get EMC up and running
if they follow the accepted setup (Currently RedHat 5.2, soon it will be
RedHat 6.2, but for making chips now 5.2). If someone wants to try it on
another distribution than I will invest my time into making chips fly on my
EMC controlled machine that is actually running. So, use what you want and
get what you get.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

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> From: gfouse@... [mailto:gfouse@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 12:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC and Linux versions RedHat vs Mandrake
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> From: George Fouse <gfouse@...>
>
> Hi Tim,
> I don't really think that's its very important what distribution you
> use. In all cases, you'll have to apply the realtime patch to a kernel
> and rebuild to get RTLinux 2.0. The easiest way to do this is to just
> get the prepatched kernel from rtlinux.org. Given this, the kernel
> shipping with the distribution doesn't matter as EMC doesn't use it.
> IMHO the only vital issue is that the distribution contain a recent
> enough gcc, libs, and X system. Any recent distribution should, I think,
> meet this requirement.
>
> George
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