I have just switched to a new laptop where only Linux is installed. It stands right next to my main working laptop where only FreeBSD is installed… and it lays on top of powered off MacBookPro… that stands on a desk where FreeBSD based desktop is located… and soon powerful FreeBSD server will show up
I have realized that I can ONLY use Z-Suite on Windoze and macOS what gives only 20% of my machines (one of them all to be exact)…
Z-Suite seems to use mono framework… which was created in order to port .net applications to GNU/BSD/Open-Source platforms.
Could you please also release Z-Suite for Linux and FreeBSD?
Linux seems more popular so that would be probably the first candidate to work on… and FreeBSD can emulate natively Linux ELF binaries so it should also work out of the box.
Please consider releasing Z-Suite for Open-Source platforms like Linux
We do not have any plans to create Z-SUITE for Linux.
We focus on providing more new options for our 3D printers, and Windows and macOS are the most popular systems.
However, some Linux users run Windows in virtual machine to use Z-SUITE, so there are ways to launch our software in this OS
As an example I will give you CURA (backend) which is a command line application that can be used on a server to automate slicing tasks and cost estimation when attached to a web application… Current Z-Suite does not allow that.
Your current application uses technology that easily allows this kind of porting. I know that maintaining Linux can be painful, therefore you can also make FreeBSD port that would be a lot easier to maintain.
At the moment you only focus on direct end-user experience… while automated tasks are also important in the industry… you mention that your printers are high-scale-production ready… that would be also nice to have software that allows that… when attached to a back-end of an web-application created to process online orders…
Not to mention you are indirectly forcing users to use commercial closed-source operating system (Windows + macOS)… while some folks on purpose do not and will not use this kind of solutions… even of Virtual Machine using such commercial OS generates additional licensing costs…
Best regards
Tomek
ps/2: I can understand you don’t want to share the source code… but sharing the binaries is a different story as you would gain lots of popularity in a most technical group of your potential customers that is DIY and Open-Source community which at the moment you are simply crossing out…
Server with 2xXeon5660 128GB RAM has just showed up. It runs FreeBSD. It builds whole kernel and base in 45min while my laptop does the same task in 9h.
Laptop with Linux has transfrormed into laptop with FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT as I have to write some drivers on my own and some stuff does not work yet on 12.0-RELEASE.
I have 3 laptops with FreeBSD, 1 desktop with FreeBSD, 1 server with FreeBSD, 1 macOS BSD machine. No Windows at all. Nor Linux.
Goal: put most computing hungry tasks on the server that will run on demand then go sleep, orders done over network + webapp, including 3d print orders with rapid preview and cost estimation
@cdrom
have a similar problem here. Switched all to Linux now, still have a Mac but it times out and OS is no longer supported.
My Zortrax M200 was the best printer in terms of quality and ease of use I ever had before. Its closed source philosophy was acceptable for this reason.
Since I cannot get Z-Suite for Linux I have to sell the M200, because I found an open source product with comparable or even better print quality from Prusa, who also delivers an excellent slicer with remarkable options and ease of use. I will replace the M200 by a second Mk3S+.
Hope this helps all with a comparable problem.
Sorry to hear still there is no Open-Source support from ZORTRAX. It’s 2021 already. I am working now on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE and 13.0-RELEASE is about to show up. Around 2014 I have used and ported Ultimaker’s CURA to FreeBSD and I can see someone even did the upgrade recently to the latest 4.8. But I have Inkspire that totally depends on Zortrax software so I am using VM or RDP + dedicated laptop for that purpose. Unfortunately, for work, I have some other dedicated hardware that mentally stays still in 199x’s.
Things changes quickly but Zortrax seems to stay behind or on purpose not supporting the Open-Source. This is really sad because they make really amazing hardware. But this hardware it not enough when you cannot use it in the way you want to. Maybe your approach and clear declaration of abandoning Zotrax will open their eyes. ZSuite is created with tools that allows easy porting to different operating systems but there is clearly no will to make it happen.
ps/2: Regarding macOS I have recently used it for a moment for one task and upgraded to 10.16 just to see that almost nothing works there and I have to buy new licenses for everything so I made a good decision four years ago to abandon it and move back to FreeBSD
Just want to come with a little ‘add-on’: I find it a bit retarded, - just personally - that there are no compability for Linux. Just my opinion, and I know it have absolutely no fucking effect what so ever. Have a good day!
