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on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.
Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gravis on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:05AM
PLC programming software for Automationdirect PLC's. Directsoft 5, Click and Productivity3000 controllers all have Windows only software.
actually, there has been plenty of development to get PLC dev on Linux. check out MatPLC. you may not be able to get your specific hardware to work on Linux but that doesn't mean you can't sell it and get something that does. if you scoff at the idea of having to pay to get hardware that works with Linux, you should realize that you have already paid to tie yourself to Windows.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Thursday October 22 2015, @10:26AM
Nice for a small mom-n-pop shop maybe, but I can absolutely guarantee that an automotive manufacturer or aerospace company is not going to scrap millions of dollars of installed systems to let a guerrilla controls engineer retrofit their latest raspberry pi or arduino concoction into all their production machinery. The real world has a sensible inertia all its own.
I just run VMware on Debian and be done with it. Plays well with all the big boys (Siemens, Rockwell, Fanuc, Delta V, etc.)
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 22 2015, @11:49AM
I certainly have been looking at alternatives. One of them is an industrial strength Arduino based PLC. I'm proficient with C and there are ladder to C compilers/IDE's for Arduino and other C applications. But how long will they be making these? Can I still buy a replacement CPU in 5/10/15/20 years? Doubtful. Companies like Automationdirect, Allen Bradley, and Siemens have been around for decades and aren't going anywhere.
At my other job, we have Automationdirect DL440 PLC's that were in stalled sometimes around 1995. I can still buy every part for them and AD told me they have no plans of cancelling the series yet. 20 years later and I can still get parts.