Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS - official announcement

[Kent A. R. <kn...@er...>]

  Gentle persons:

Thank you, Alex, Moses, and all the EMC2 team for keeping us moving forward.

Three small points...

1. I suggest you update the home page for http://wiki.linuxcnc.org 
soonest to reflect what's shown in the sidebar on the home page for 
http://www.linuxcnc.org.
> Step 1: Download the iso from:
> >  http://www.linuxcnc.org/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.iso
> >  (note:  this URL might change in the future, reference
> >  http://www.linuxcnc.org/  for the latest download link, and for a
> >  description
> >  of known problems).
2. Generally I endorse keeping as many options open as possible, but 
with three different places to post bugs, I suspect a bit of confusion 
will creep into the process as some people look in bin A, some in bin B, 
and some in bin C. I'd rather have only one place to look to see if 
others are having a problem I'm having, but I can live with three. Let's 
just all keep our cool in the early stages of mass testing.
> >  == Reporting problems&  getting help ==
> >
> >  Reporting issues/problems/nags/ideas for improvements or anything else,
> >  can
> >  be done via email (on this list), via IRC (#emc-devel on irc.freenode.net)
> >  or via bug-reports at:
> >  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=6744&atid=106744
> >
> >  Thanks for your patience, and for all the help to make it another great
> >  release.
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  Alex Joni
> >
3. For me, at least, the most compelling motivation for keeping up with 
the Ubuntu LTS releases is the access to new hardware support in the 
linux kernel and its modules. My Google skills are getting rusty. Does 
anyone know a better summary of new kernel features than the pages 
posted on kernelnewbies.org (e.g., 
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32)? I suggest we post a link to them 
or whatever is better on our sites to help EMC2 users in their "do 
I/don't I" decision to upgrade.

These are just the usual KentNits (as my staff used to call them). I'm 
downloading the new LiveCD now and can't wait to take it for a test spin 
tonight.

Regards,
Kent