google-earth anybody?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 July 2012 21:36:00 Liam Proven did opine:

> On 30 July 2012 21:08, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > I am, but whats wrong with running the same distro on all 3 or 4
> > machines? None of this BS about ubuntu does it this way, while pclos
> > and mandriva do it this way, and both swear on a 6 foot stack of
> > bibles their's is the one true way.  That just adds to the stench of
> > BS...
> 
> By all means run the same /distro/ but there's no reason to limit your
> desktop experience by restricting yourself to the constrained s/w
> choice of a mill-control machine: realtime, elderly kernel etc.
> 
> I'd suggest you update the desktop machines to the full current
> release & the latest kernel, which is probably something like
> linux-generic-lts-backport-precise by now.
> 
> Better still, go to 12.04. It's a lot nicer, IMHO; if you don't like
> Unity, either install Maté or run Notalinux -
> http://www.notalinux.com/

I will switch all machines to 12.04, if and when we have a successful build
of that kernel with the rtai patches.  That is precisely the major push on 
the rtai list ATM.  And I have a suspicion that I'd nuke unity in its 
entirety, however, what will probably happen is that the linuxcnc crew will 
probably respin the 12.04 release with all updates as of the respin, and 
probably with a window manager and gui that isn't near as heavyweight as we 
are hearing unity to be.  We want to carve metal with high precision and if 
the gui turns out to be somewhat less glamorous than 'modern' gui's, we 
remind ourselves that all that glamor has not ever translated into parts 
shipped and money in the bank.  A lightweight window manager is generally 
fine.  Stability is worth 100x the worth of the glitz.

Now, if I could just click on send, and have this message actually off my 
machine in the 3 seconds or less it should take, I'd be a happy camper. 30 
to 50 seconds that it freezes is a PIMA.

Cheers, Gene
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