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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from March 2022</title>
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  10                 <title>Run your industrial metal working machine using Debian?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 2 Mar 2022 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;After many months of hard work by the good people involved in
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC&quot;&gt;LinuxCNC&lt;/a&gt;, the
  16 system was accepted Sunday
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linuxcnc&quot;&gt;into Debian&lt;/a&gt;.
  18 Once it was available from Debian, I was surprised to discover from
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=linuxcnc&quot;&gt;its
  20 popularity-contest numbers&lt;/a&gt; that people have been reporting its use
  21 since 2012.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxcnc.org/&quot;&gt;Its project site&lt;/a&gt; might
  22 be a good place to check out, but sadly is not working when visiting
  23 via Tor.&lt;/p&gt;
  24
  25 &lt;p&gt;But what is LinuxCNC, you are probably wondering?  Perhaps a
  26 Wikipedia quote is in place?&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  29 &quot;LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
  30 machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
  31 cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or
  32 joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has
  33 several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
  34 interactive development).&quot;
  35 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  36
  37 &lt;p&gt;It can even control 3D printers.  And even though the Wikipedia
  38 page indicate that it can only work with hard real time kernel
  39 features, it can also work with the user space soft real time features
  40 provided by the Debian kernel.
  41 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/linuxcnc/linuxcnc&quot;&gt;The source code&lt;/a&gt; is
  42 available from Github.  The last few months I&#39;ve been involved in the
  43 translation setup for the program and documentation.  Translators are
  44 most welcome to
  45 &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/linuxcnc/&quot;&gt;join the
  46 effort&lt;/a&gt; using Weblate.&lt;/p&gt;
  47
  48 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  49 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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