LinuxCNC controls CNC machines. It can drive milling machines, lathes, 3D printers, laser cutters, plasma cutters, robot arms, hexapods, and more. The project's homepage provides references to the documentation and illustrative videos.

LinuxCNC was initiated 25 years ago and evolved into a very international project with contributions from all over the globe. With release 2.9 of LinuxCNC we also transitioned the documentation to the use of the public crowd translation services of weblate and cordially invite all our users to contribute. The translations we expect to help attract practitioners to the project and also helps educating enthusiasts of all age groups on automated machining.

THE AUTHORS OF THIS SOFTWARE ACCEPT ABSOLUTELY NO LIABILITY FOR ANY HARM OR LOSS RESULTING FROM ITS USE.

IT IS EXTREMELY UNWISE TO RELY ON SOFTWARE ALONE FOR SAFETY.

Any machinery capable of harming persons must have provisions for completely removing power from all motors, etc, before persons enter any danger area.

All machinery must be designed to comply with local and national safety codes, and the authors of this software can not, and do not, take any responsibility for such compliance.

This software is released under the GPLv2, with some parts under the LGPL. See the file COPYING for more details.

Refer to the file 'docs/src/code/building-linuxcnc.txt' for information about building and running the software, or look here:

http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/code/building-linuxcnc.html