I am back to playing with computers again as well as the HB2 router. The router itself is fully functional but it is one of those projects that will never be finished. I just keep trying new features.<\/p>\n
The computer is a necessary tool in running the CNC program (MACH3). That is what makes the HB2 do its thing. My baby computer died, That computer I was going to leave in place for Taig CNC operation. I have been using the ASUS (The black computer see in the recent pictures.) box for both CNC machines.<\/p>\n
I have ordered the parts to make a new home for the good parts left over from the dead machine. I have chosen an AMD Athalon X2 64 bit very low (45 watt) processor. The case is also very small. I will show it all after I have it assembled.<\/p>\n
What I plan to do is use openSUSE<\/a> Linux for the operating system. I will leave a small amount of space to boot Windows XP for the MACH3 operation. That is exactly what I have done here with the ASUS CNC box. I am writing this in the Linux boot section of the computer. BTW open SUSE loaded into this machine very clean with zero issues on the very first try.<\/p>\n I have no worry about contaminating the WIN XP operation environment I use to run MACH3. Everything that can be turned off not related to CNC is off. Yes, I could dual boot with two versions of Win XP but I happen to like LINUX and especially the openSUSE distro.<\/p>\n The openSUSE<\/a> Linux I installed is the 64 bit version which is where it is all happening these days. The best part is it is absolutely free. So is Fedora<\/a> and Ubuntu<\/a>. There are a lot of Linux OS choices these days but I still need the MS version for some things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am back to playing with computers again as well as the HB2 router. The router itself is fully functional but it is one of those projects that will never be finished. I just keep trying new features. The computer is a necessary tool in running the CNC program (MACH3). That is what makes the HB2 do its thing. My baby computer died, That computer I was going to leave in place for Taig CNC...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,95],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","category-linux","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}