Journal KshGoddess's Journal: THIS is why linux is not ready for primetime. 18
So Ben (el Husband) is building/has built a CNC router using Ubuntu and a couple of pieces of software, a CAD program (for which he paid), a CNC controller program (which I can't remember if it was free as in beer or not), a tiny motherboard, and a couple of other pieces of actual hardware for which he paid a decent amount of money (but not enough to justify actually buying a mill the size he needs). Motors, threaded rod, etc. If you want to see, he's got a video on youtube linked from the woodshop blog showing it in action.
We've had problems with ubuntu deciding to boot from the usb stick, partially because Ubuntu decided it didn't want to shut down properly, and corrupted libraries, and someone decided that certain useful utilities (say, fsck) didn't need to be statically linked, which made it rather unhappy to work with. Ubuntu has been reinstalled, and he's got a
1: The problem with the USB stick was that SOMEONE, decided that I MUST have a CDROM drive, and surely that CDROM drive would be my second drive, so they added a cdrom entry in fstab for
2: The G-Code reference page has JAVASCRIPT that detects if the gcode-main.html is in the same doc base and sets all the links to point there if so, and to the linuxcnc server if not. So someone wrote a fairly complex bit of code just to make that work, then someone else decided to not include the main page with the distribution. Assholes!
As a programmer and a unix admin, he gets a little upset.
This is why I dislike much of Linux (Score:1)
I'll say this now: I use linux for quite a bit of astronomy work. It does its job beautifully and without any hesitation. The problem is that the Linux Children have decided that they must know everything and their users are clueless shitheads that dont know what they're doing.
Take for example my own prediciment: a light powerful linux laptop.
I wanted 3 things: GDM, a *Box window manager, some dockapps and fbpanel.
GDM: Botched because I cant configure it. No really, *I CANT CONFIGURE IT* leaving ALL gdm the
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Linux is ready for //some// prime-time. As long as you dont plan on being a power user.
So, as long as you don't actually want to use the damned thing to do whatever it is you do, it works fine. Isn't that the usual argument for windows?
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That Ubuntu goes out of the way to hide root from you should be the first clue that it's not meant for anyone who wants to really use it, no?
It's not like it costs money to switch to anything else ...
Just saying ...
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Because Its Not Quite As Bad As Debian(tm).
I'm sorry but I cant for the damned life of me get Debian plian and clear to work on this box because they outright refuse to consider that the people using it might not want all their software running 100% FOSS stuff.
Ubuntu when you get down to it is getting /slowly/ worse and FWIH Lucid is much better.
However the award for the worse linux distro ever has to go to... Linux Mint. Anyone who uses a fucking init daemon to keep you from NOT using their bastard redhead
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I think the original thought was "this will be relatively easy since this distro is used all the time for livecd systems." And yeah, it pretty much comes down to "Well, it's a more or less mainstream linux distro that will support the things I want to do without too much pain."
Isn't that how most linux distros are chosen?
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linux on the thumb drive. (Score:2)
i've found that you can run a full install of linux from an USB hard drive. there's fewer problems and fs weirdness.
start with a laptop with a hard drive you can later make external, set up all your partitions and install however you like to.
make the hard drive an external.
don't put any other hard drives in the machine, what ever you had set to be the swap space (remember to check cryptswap if it applies) will murder the ever-loving-shit out of what ever was there: eg the internal hard drives 1st logical pa
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lol; if you saw the "linux box", you'd understand why it's only using a thumb drive. A, it's meant to operate in the workshop, where there will be vibration and perhaps power fluctuation so we wanted a solid-state drive (no head crash, etc), and 2, it was built as cheaply as possible. Well, computer partswise.
The box is a microATX mobo with a SD card reader in it (which runs the OS). The usb ports are connected with the cable to the mobo (where we xfer files). There is no container for it (yet, Ben's goin
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try looking into one of the CompactFlash to IDE/SATA bridges. Solid State and non-USB
If you're willing to really dive into something more, try actually going for an SBC :) There's a company called Technologic Systems that sells a $150 Linux SBC that runs on 5v. I use it for my networking central server (ssh, dns, dhcp)
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Ubuntu is a good idea, but ... (Score:1)
Hopefully slashbork will let the link work, click on the link from user page was roblematic
http://slashdot.org/journal/249548/Grrr---my-working-debian-install-is-looking-attractive---ubuntu-sound-permission?art_pos=1 [slashdot.org]
Short version:Someone at Canonical/Ubuntu removed HAL and replaced it with udev but without something else installed you lose functionality (ie 2 users on one system being able to use sound). Solution - remove all users from the audio group to enable sound for all users. Full functionality req
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I was more generally bitching.
In particular, the sound issue basically needed to be reverse engineered to be solved because there was no real documentation to be found on what they did or what the impacts might be. Or testing.
This router (Score:2)
is fantastic. I envy.
Any particular reason Ubuntu? (Score:1)
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