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Re: Alternatives to Mach3
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2022, 10:40:00 AM »
Hi,

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so no need to have a real time Linux distribution.

Wrong, it MUST have  a realtime kernel otherwise LinuxCNC does not work. There was in earlier time an Ubuntu distro that had RTE (Realtime Extensions)
and that was used. In more recent times there are better distros.

Craig
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Re: Alternatives to Mach3
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2022, 10:42:52 AM »
Re: Alternatives to Mach3
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2022, 02:39:22 PM »
Hi,
well yes, over the years various distros have been used, including at one time Ubuntu with RTE, several years ago it was Mint
with Preempt-RT kernel, and now its Debian also with Preempt-RT kernel, either way you need realtime Linux to run LinuxCNC.

Craig
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Re: Alternatives to Mach3
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2022, 02:02:07 AM »
you may also have look at estlcam.
anything is possible, just try to do it.
if you find some mistakes, in my bad bavarian english,they are yours.
Re: Alternatives to Mach3
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2022, 02:20:57 AM »
Hi,
I'm kind of thinking that Mach3 is not that dissimilar to Mach4, and Mach4 is not so dissimilar to UCCNC and UCCNC is not so
dissimilar to LinuxCNC...then if:

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I've tried but cannot get on with Mach3,

then maybe he 'won't get on' with all or any of these solutions.
There are a couple of possibilities like Masso and Centroid Acorn for which I have zero knowledge but other than that I can only
think of the toy stuff like GRBL.

Craig
'I enjoy sex at 73.....I live at 71 so its not too far to walk.'