Custom Mint-19.2 with Linuxcnc

Has anyone used the CAM in freecad ? Would it be a worthy addition ?

Doesn't the Path workbench come with all FreeCad versions, it does with the Mac version 0.19 that I use. I have used it occasionally and it did what I wanted for some milling. It's a bit of a learning curve but then so are most things...

Phil re the kernel you linked to.
It does seem snappier, the issue is that the headers have a dependency on gcc-8, Mint 19.2 has gcc-7. On a normal system this wouldn't be an issue, but I don't want to be dealing with issues when users, for some reason or another, need to build an "out of tree" kernel module. So to this end I'm attempting to build packages the (debian way) using gcc-7.
If that goes ok I'll building an image with this kernel )and put it up for testing. I'm hoping that the compiler isn't the main reason for the snappiness.

Hmmm appears gcc8 is available...will have to experiment.

Yeah, I stated down that track yesterday and didn't finish. There are quite a few dependencies. If you want I can finish that off this arvo and report back.

On another note there are no LinuxCNC repositories in apt sources nor is the buildbot archive signing key installed.

Yep I know that, as these are just for testing I wanted to keep it to a particular version of Linuxcnc......be easier for trouble shooting for the time being.

No worries.

I am just building LinuxCNC at the moment after running your build deps script, looking good.

gparted would be nice.

gparted is removed as part of the Mint install process along with the ubiquity stuff and some bits and pieces.

linuxcnc 2.8 builds ok
linuxcnc 2.9 has issues /src/emc/rs274ngc/interp_g7x.cc ( I don't know if this issue has been sorted yet)
This may be fixed by installing gcc-8 and checking the instructions to make gcc-8 the default. As gcc-8 is the default in buster.
askubuntu.com/questions/1028601/install-...only-on-ubuntu-18-04

I started a clean build of kernel packages using the gcc-8 compiler. I needed to do more messing around with the control file fro gcc-7, which I couldn't be bothered with ATM. Tho I may have to do some modding.
But maybe it maybe worth waiting to till the next release of Mint.