Re: EMC and Taig w/ MicroProto

The information is right here on the download page.

http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=4&lang=en

Perhaps it should be more clear about what the differences between
distributions are.

EMC is no longer being developed. I think the only place to get it is
the CVS repository or maybe some old mirror sites.

EMC2 is the new version with active development. The major change was
the addition of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for handling the
interface to hardware. Along with this came a re-write (and major
improvement) to much of the lower level code. The preferred method of
installing EMC2 is to install a standard Ubuntu system, then install
the EMC2 Ubuntu packages.

The BDI is a complete Debian install that installs a kernel with real
time support. It also allows you to install the tools for development
(or at least it used to). EMC2 can be compiled/built/ran on this
platform (or at least it used to, I haven't tried a recent BDI).
However, the EMC installed by the BDI is unique to the BDI.

~petev

~petev
--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@...>
wrote:

>
> vavaroutsos wrote:
>
> > BDI 4.49 is quite different than EMC2. The version of EMC on the

BDI

> > distro is EMC at the lower levels, with some parts of EMC2 at the
> > higer levels. BDI development branched from EMC quite some time

ago.

> > The configuration method and flexibility is drastically different
> > between the two. EMC2 is quite flexible in it's handling of

hardware.

> > You can get more info www.linuxcnc.org.
>
> Perhaps THAT information would be useful ON www.linuxcnc.org :(
>
> I just assumed that because I was following the installation advise

ON

> www.linuxcnc.org I WAS getting EMC2!
>
> Certainly that explains why the manual does not follow on from what

BDI

> is actually doing.
>
> I DO now have the correct version of Ubuntu since the current

version of

> that will not play with EMC2 - something that was not indicated a

couple

> of weeks ago - and the emc2-ubuntu-livecd.iso which I am about to

install ;)

>
> The problem with playing with stuff that is still being developed,

the

> documentation appears after you look at it :)
>
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