CNC under Lubuntu (was Lubuntu alternative sessions script)

[Federico Leoni]

Pete,

when you reply to messages here could you please put the mailing-list
address too? Thanks!
Back on topic, to see if yours CNC machines will works or not, could
be a good idea to send a message to the LinuxCNC community/forum with
a sample of the program output generated under windows. Surely they
will help you.

http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/community
http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum

Let as know!

F.

2013/7/7 Pete <psmouty at live.com>:
> On 07/07/13 20:00, Federico Leoni wrote:
>
> It's easy to migrate from xp to Lubuntu for normal office use. Trust me.
> For CNC, assuming you are talking about computer numerical control, I
> understand your doubts.
> Anyway many CNC controlled machine use a set of standard instructions. I
> worked with different lasercut from Mazak and other kind of CNC machines
> some years ago and the majority were based on G-Code language.
>
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code
>
> And if you like there are CNC solution based on Ubuntu
>
> http://www.linuxcnc.org
>
> Have a look on it.
>
> If you are not talking about this kind of CNC... Well please explain a
> little bit more deeply your problem.
>
> F.
>
> Em 07/07/2013 15:30, "Pete" <psmouty at live.com> escreveu:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's great that we are thinking of offering a better experience to XP
>> users, but let us not forget about the millions of small and medium sized
>> businesses out there who will want to 'carry on as they are' with minimal
>> cost in terms of hard / soft ware, and minimal retraining of their staff.
>> Take my old company as an example employing 15 - 20 people on one site, have
>> used XP since it's inception and is now being told by MS that they need to
>> upgrade their six or seven machines to make them Win7 compliant. If we can
>> offer something that enables them to carry on without that expense in these
>> difficult times I am sure that would be a persuasive argument!
>>
>> Note that to this end I am in the process of clearing out my old netbook
>> (1200 cpu 1.5gb ram 40gb HDD) to put a clean Lubuntu install on it for a
>> meeting with my old boss on Thursday to show him how good it is and and a
>> very reasonable outlay of nothing for either hard or software, possibly
>> (even hopefully) a few hundred pounds to me for the installation of Lubuntu
>> on their machines but that is secondary to getting the message out there.
>>
>> I have no worries over the 'office' functions (email, spreadsheets,
>> presentations etc).
>> The bit that concerns me is the CNC bit along with the software to 'port
>> the specs' to the CNC machine as their specs often come from third party
>> places who will quite possibly still be using windoze.
>>
>> I have not had enough experience of Ubuntu CNC to say for certain that
>> there will not be any errors in then putting those files onto a *ubuntu box,
>> and as that *is* their business they cannot afford any hassle however small
>> and the transition *must* be seamless, as any hassle will have a negative
>> impact on their business and they will end up going out and getting Win7
>> just for compatibility with their customers.
>>
>> If anyone has any thoughts on this please let me know ! Although I no
>> longer work for them I still have a good relationship with the owners, and
>> do not wish that to change as I cost them time / money or worst of all a
>> customer!
>>
>> Just my thoughts
>>
>> Peter Smout
>>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Many thanks for the link, i was aware of the CNC (computer numerical
> control) based on ubuntu I am unsure of what language they use on a day to
> day basis but i will ask on Thurs! I have no worries about the office side
> of things (some minor formatting issues in word documents aside) I
> frequently use my Ubuntu boxes for files from MS machines so I am familiar
> with Libre Office / Open Office.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Pete