On 02/09/2014 11:56 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: [...liberal snipping...] > > Thanks for the detailed reply. It comes to mind that a F19 feature was > packaging tools for 3D printing, see [1]. Back in October 2012 there was > also a small discussion on devel [2] concerning 3D printing and > potentially the creation of a 3D printing SIG if people were interested. > Possibly one could group together and create a > CAD/CAM/CNC/Maker/3Dprinting SIG? Fedora's looking good ATM for the 3D printer folks. Going forward, LinuxCNC + BeagleBone is a new combo for replacing Arduino controllers, which are already pushing the hardware's limits despite very clever programming. I don't know what Fedora's plan is for the embedded space, but I did see a fc20 BeagleBone image. As for the industrial side of the market, FOSS has potentially viable competitors among two of CAD/CAM/CNC, FreeCAD and LinuxCNC (no CAM). Fedora cannot ship FreeCAD because of a license problem with the required OpenCASCADE [3], even though Debian allows it. With LinuxCNC, at least Fedora will have one of the three. > I myself am using LinuxCNC (using the provided Ubuntu images) and I'd > love to have LinuxCNC on Fedora, and although my knowledge as far as > working in the kernel is rather limited, I'd be happy to help with the > userspace portion. At least package reviews would be extremely helpful when the time comes. Other pieces are falling into place pretty well; I'm mostly waiting until these changes have been mainlined before starting the Fedora packaging process. Thanks for the offer to help! John > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing > [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-October/173121.html [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-February/msg00035.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
