BDI EMC

Preface

With BDI (Brain Dead Install) distribution you can easily install EMC in your machine within hours. Try it, you'll love it ;-) So what is EMC, anyway ? EMC Is powerfull CNC controlling software for Linux. You can control CNC-machines and robots etc. with it. BDI EMC is made by Paul Corner, see more at http://www.linuxcnc.org/bdi/.

16 June 2003:

Changes since last version: (By Paul Corner)

 BDI-2.20b has been updated with the latest EMC
 sources, along with revised documentation. A couple of new packages have been
 added to improve security. -b version also has small script fix that fixes
 some of the desktop shortcuts.

It's quite large, about 550MB, so it's going to take a while to download. ISO-image is made with XCDRoast, an linux CD-burning software. Image should also be usable in Windows-machines with proper CD-writing software. In Linux, you can write image using commandline as follows:

cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -pad -data bdiemc-2.18.iso

where speed and dev parameters are edited to match your CDR-configuration.

HTTP-access

You can download the latest versions of BDI-EMC install from here.

Current version: -rw-r--r-- 1 henkka henkka 589342720 Jun 11 10:25 BDI-2.20b.iso

md5-CRC-sums: 7f57cea9fe320334aa0739dfc05a447f BDI-2.20b.iso

FTP-access

There is also anonymous ftp-access available at ftp://yty.net

MD5

MD5 is a method for checking the file-integrity. In Linux, you can check it with

md5sum bdiemc.iso

It will print some checksum and it should be same as above. If not, try checking again and downloading it again.
For Windows, you can download MD5 from http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/. In Linux, MD5 should come with the distribution. Just make sure to install "textutils-XXXX.rpm" file if in RedHat based distribution.

You can find more distribution sites and people behind BDI from "official" BDI EMC site at www.linuxcnc.org.

Logos for cd-covers

You can download logo for your cd-cover as TIFF (8 Mb, 300x300dpi), JPG (1.5 Mb, 300x300dpi), or as a small JPG (abt. 30kt, 75x75dpi). The logo is scanned from "original" BDI-EMC CD.

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