[News] Self-Replicating Machine Runs Linux
Roy Schestowitz
| A universal constructor is a machine that can replicate itself and -
| in addition - make other industrial products. Such a machine would have
| a number of interesting characteristics, such as being subject to
| Darwinian evolution, increasing in number exponentially, and being
| extremely low-cost.
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Erik Funkenbusch
I can't find any reference to Linux on the page at all, in fact, it doesn't
appear to be capable of running any kind of operating system. According to
the sourceforge site, the software runs on Win32.
So, where exactly do you get the "Runs Linux" part from? Oh, right, you
won't acknowledge your error.
Sinister Midget
> ......Oh, right, you won't acknowledge your error.
Is that a mirror you're speaking into?
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Kier
> On 2006-07-18, Erik Funkenbusch <er...@despam-funkenbusch.com> posted something concerning:
>
>> ......Oh, right, you won't acknowledge your error.
>
> Is that a mirror you're speaking into?
I couldn't see any mention of Linux either. It's under the GPL, though, so
at least it's open source. Roy should amend his heading.
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Kier
Roy Schestowitz
he source where I read about it clearly stated that it was
GNU/Linux and Java. This may not say so on the site, but the
folks at Bath University know their software better. *smile*
Best wishes,
Roy
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Paul Hovnanian P.E.
>
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> I can't find any reference to Linux on the page at all, in fact, it doesn't
> appear to be capable of running any kind of operating system. According to
> the sourceforge site, the software runs on Win32.
I hope that research team is keeping up with Windows license purchases
as that machine replicates.
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Jim Richardson
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:38:40 -0500,
Erik Funkenbusch <er...@despam-funkenbusch.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:22:30 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>| A universal constructor is a machine that can replicate itself and -
>>| in addition - make other industrial products. Such a machine would have
>>| a number of interesting characteristics, such as being subject to
>>| Darwinian evolution, increasing in number exponentially, and being
>>| extremely low-cost.
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>>
>> http://reprap.org/
>
> I can't find any reference to Linux on the page at all, in fact, it doesn't
> appear to be capable of running any kind of operating system. According to
> the sourceforge site, the software runs on Win32.
>
According to their subversion repository, it runs on Java 1.4... (the
host side, the ucontroller stuff is different of course.)
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Roy Schestowitz
An E-mail message from one of the project's heads (creator of the "Da Witch"
prototype, who also presented the RepRap at Linuxconf 2006).
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| Just to clear up the situation on RepRap I saw being discussed
| in comp.os.linux.advocacy
|
| I can confirm that the whole development toolchain from the 3D CAD all
| the way to the cross-compiler and programmer for the PICs work just fine
| on Linux. I don't use anything else, and the prototype is now making
| simple 3D objects with greater than 0.5mm resolution.
|
| Those poor, disadvantaged Windows users can build under Cygwin.
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And, yes E.F., I was given permission to quote.