Ubuntu Xenial LTS Repository

The following are just my opinions. Some based on paranoia, others based on not effing up a known good setup when trying out a new version of LCNC.
I believe the best thing is having a single dedicated machine for running a cnc machine. Once that machine is setup the only real need for updates is if there is any major issues running LCNC. Have a dual boot setup, one for actually running the machine with a solid known setup and another partition for testing or major config changes.

I also believe in keeping that machine from physically being able to have access to the Internet...ie no cable connected & wireless card removed (some wifi cards can introduce high latencies).

Running a cnc machine has to be the core activity that machine does.

I've managed to setup daily builds of 2.8 on launchpad.net. This should allow users to easily add the ppa and get i386 & amd64 builds for Trusty, Xenial and Bionic.


code.launchpad.net/~szechyjs/+archive/ubuntu/linuxcnc-daily

That's great! Which RT kernel are you using/compiling these against?

They are uspace builds, so they will work with any kernel. You obviously will get better results with the RT kernel though. As of now I still only have the 4.4 RT kernel built for Xenial, which can be found in the repo in the OP.

I just finished adding a ppa for the stable v2.7 releases as well...


launchpad.net/~szechyjs/+archive/ubuntu/linuxcnc

szechyjs wrote: I've managed to setup daily builds of 2.8 on launchpad.net. This should allow users to easily add the ppa and get i386 & amd64 builds for Trusty, Xenial and Bionic.

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:szechyjs/linuxcnc-daily sudo apt-get update

code.launchpad.net/~szechyjs/+archive/ubuntu/linuxcnc-daily

Hi szechyjs, thank yuou so much mate!
Floris