Good bye to Ubuntu 10.04

Actually Ubuntu 14.04 (and the derivative Mint 17) work fine with LinuxCNC,
Ubuntu 16.04 (and Mint 18) also work but have a few minor issues (mostly fixed in master)

ohh well done ... so I can use your (@PCW) 6i25 or E7i76 on 14.04 using the master version ?? and with that kernel rtai ??

Regards
giorgio

Any of Mesas PCI/PCIE/Ethernet cards work fine with 2.7.x or master on 14.04

I would not bother with RTAI unless you are using a parallel port and software stepping
Its much easier to get modern hardware support via a Preempt-RT kernel
(though if you have older hardware I would stay with a 4.1.xx or lower kernel version)

sorry but my ultimate reading is these:

precise install

& these ..

14.04 patch

what did I miss? because you tell me that I can Please install with a preempt-rt ... it is available in the repo for Ubuntu 4.14? .. For work in real time & for sim? Master (JA completed) and 2.7.7 ??

Sorry I read nothing about !! can you send me some links about??

Regards
giorgio

I just installed a standard ubuntu 14.04 (same with Mint 17 and Mint 18)
then compiled/installed a Preempt-RT kernel and compiled LinuxCNC from source

PCW wrote: I just installed a standard ubuntu 14.04 (same with Mint 17 and Mint 18)
then compiled/installed a Preempt-RT kernel and compiled LinuxCNC from source

its the same process to install on ubuntu 16?

Yes, same process. there are some minor issues with 16.04/Mint18

There's a setuid issue with 16.04 and Mint18 that causes trouble
with Ethernet cards ( something related to not getting root permissions to launch iptables )
I think this is only fixed in master

There's also a python numpy fix needed for 16.04/Mint18 but this has been added to 2.7.8
(but not added to master yet AFAIK)

Also for some reason Axis starts up minimized in Mint18. probably a window manager issue