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GNU General Public License (GPL and LGPL).
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To lower the entry-hurdle, LinuxCNC provides:
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* easy discovery and testing without installation with the Live Image,
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* easy installation from the Live Image,
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* easy to use graphical configuration wizards to rapidly create a configuration
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specific to the machine,
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* directly availability as regular packages of recent releases of Debian (since Bookworm) and Ubuntu (since Kinetic Kudu).
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LinuxCNC provides a graphical user interface with many flavours to choose from to match your personal preferences and technical needs. Advanced users may directly exploit
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* graphical interface creation tools (Glade, Qt),
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* the interpreter for 'G-code' (the RS-274 machine tool programming language),
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* operation of low-level machine electronics such as sensors and motor drives,
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* an easy to use 'breadboard' layer for quickly creating a unique configuration for your machine,
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* a software PLC programmable with ladder diagrams.
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Under the hood, LinuxCNC provides
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* a realtime motion planning system with look-ahead,
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* support for non-Cartesian motion systems is provided via custom
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kinematics modules. Available architectures include hexapods (Stewart
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