Should the .iso add a bit of CAD and CAM?

[smoe]

FreeCAD?
Inkscape + https://github.com/cnc-club/gcodetools ?

[sebastiankuzminsky]

I'm of two minds on this. Sometimes a user may want a full CAD/CAM workstation on the ISO, but at other times they want a tiny machine controller, for what's essentially a machine control appliance. In the latter case, anything extra is just bloat.

[smoe]

I suggest to wait and see how our man power develops once the release is out. Maybe there is some momentum to offer both a minimal version and a CAD/CAM version for a LinuxCNC .iso.

[silopolis]

Le jeu. 17 nov. 2022 à 16:46, Sebastian Kuzminsky ***@***.***> a écrit :

I'm of two minds on this. Sometimes a user may want a full CAD/CAM workstation on the ISO, but at other times they want a tiny machine controller, for what's essentially a machine control appliance. In the latter case, anything extra is just bloat.

Debian's tasksel looks made for such alternative configs and supported by Installer as well as post-install. We could design CNC and CAD/CAM tasks that user could select from as needed

[smoe]

Le jeu. 17 nov. 2022 à 16:46, Sebastian Kuzminsky @.***> a écrit :

I'm of two minds on this. Sometimes a user may want a full CAD/CAM workstation on the ISO, but at other times they want a tiny machine controller, for what's essentially a machine control appliance. In the latter case, anything extra is just bloat.

Debian's tasksel looks made for such alternative configs and supported by Installer as well as post-install. We could design CNC and CAD/CAM tasks that user could select from as needed

That we can possibly do also without affecting the .iso. Those live systems are typically non-persistent, so installing something is gone with a next boot. Have not tried the LinuxCNC one, though.

[andypugh]

Two separate ISOs with different package lists isn't a massive amount of extra work.

All my controllers run from a 4GB DOM SSD though, so would struggle with anything fully-featured.

[rodw-au]

The current Bookworm ISO weighs in at 2.3 Gb when built.
We should not be adding further bloatware that often a user will not require.
Recommend this issue be closed