On Monday 03 March 2014 11:22:42 Lester Caine did opine: > Mark Wendt wrote: > > No firewall is perfect though. The object of the game is to make it > > hard enough for the probers to get in that they give up and go > > someplace else. > > My CNC machines have a fairly secure firewall ... the only files used > are loaded by USB stick and only gcode files are ever loaded. It is bad > enough having to cope with the 'improvements' to my Linux desktop which > seem to happen every week so I don't want anything to 'improve' a > working CNC setup unless *I* am convinced it is useful :)
I am on the 2.5.3 branch ATM, and I usually do the updates as soon as update-manager tells me they are available. And nothing in any update has had a detectable regression effect on my machines since I switched back to the 2.5.3 branch. Updates have slowed the last month or so as everybody is working on the next release to be called 2.6.0, but I have probably installed about 75 updates to linuxCNC in the past calendar year without encountering a problem worth noting. They "just work(TM)". :) YMMV of coarse. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> NOTICE: Will pay 100 USD for an HP-4815A defective but complete probe assembly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
