Re: Ubuntu on old machine
- From: Young <tuxman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:32:30 -0500
Doug Pollard wrote:
steve wrote:Don't keep quiet! Maybe put OT: at the beginning of the email, but get
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Doug Pollard wrote:
Hi all,according to the website, theres a live cd, I would try that out first
I have something I want to try later Probably in the spring and am
looking for a couple of opinions. I would like to put EMC on an old
computer I have. Right now I am busy with doing video and trying to get
some knowhow with the terminal. This whole thing is now in the thinking
about stage. I have a little shop with a lathe and milling machine
that would be fun to run as CNC on Emc.
The box is a E-machine 266 MHZ and 250 megabits of Random
access memory. It has a 4o gig and 60 gig hard drives. It will boot
from cd. Will Ubuntu 8.04 install and run on such a machine? Would I
be better off to try something like Xubuntu or Puppy Linux. The machine
will be totally dedicated to EMC. All other Ubuntu work will be done
on the machine I am presently using.
I am also keeping my eyes open for a free or really cheap box with a
little more oomff :-) the question may be mute.
Thanks for any advice, Doug
to see if your processor can handle the load. Its a pentium 2 right?
Sounds like a nice project, I didnt even know software such as that was
available...cool!
FYI, I have a P2 file server with 3 usb hard drives, which doubles as a
web/ftp server , not real processor intensive, but it runs great with a
300mhz P2, 768 meg ram. Let us know how you make out.
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Steve Reilly
http://reillyblog.com
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design a part in Qcad and dump it into Emc and it will basicley write
the g codes to run the machine. You do have to put in spindle speeds
and feeds and etc. I have as a machinist run and programed cnc machines
but this is quite amazing to my way of thinking and offers huge uses
for Linux.
A guy with a little know how can run these machines in his garage in
the back yard. He can build his own machines or use used ones. Him and
his wife working there can easy make $100,000.00 a year and make parts
cheaper than they can be bought in China and shipped here. But the real
advavtage is if a customer needs a thousand parts a month shipped 250
parts a week he can make 250 pieces every week or nine parts everyday,
then run others part-s the rest of the day or week. Just in time
delivery with no parts in stock. A huge cost cutting advantage to his
customer and no additional cost to him.. Linux and EMC has this small
shop market cornered at least for now.
Sorry for this off topic post I just find it hard to keep this quiet.
Doug
the word on this kind of thing.
How about this for a posting?
"OT: Linux and the machine shop success story."
I'd love to read it.
Mark
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