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- <title>Run your industrial metal working machine using Debian?</title>
- <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Run_your_industrial_metal_working_machine_using_Debian_.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 2 Mar 2022 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>After many months of hard work by the good people involved in
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxCNC">LinuxCNC</a>, the
-system was accepted Sunday
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linuxcnc">into Debian</a>.
-Once it was available from Debian, I was surprised to discover from
-<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=linuxcnc">its
-popularity-contest numbers</a> that people have been reporting its use
-since 2012. <a href="http://linuxcnc.org/">Its project site</a> might
-be a good place to check out, but sadly is not working when visiting
-via Tor.</p>
-
-<p>But what is LinuxCNC, you are probably wondering? Perhaps a
-Wikipedia quote is in place?</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"LinuxCNC is a software system for numerical control of
-machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, routers,
-cutting machines, robots and hexapods. It can control up to 9 axes or
-joints of a CNC machine using G-code (RS-274NGC) as input. It has
-several GUIs suited to specific kinds of usage (touch screen,
-interactive development)."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>It can even control 3D printers. And even though the Wikipedia
-page indicate that it can only work with hard real time kernel
-features, it can also work with the user space soft real time features
-provided by the Debian kernel.
-<a href="https://github.com/linuxcnc/linuxcnc">The source code</a> is
-available from Github. The last few months I've been involved in the
-translation setup for the program and documentation. Translators are
-most welcome to
-<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/linuxcnc/">join the
-effort</a> using Weblate.</p>
-