Welcome to LinuxCNC.org

Because LinuxCNC is a global project (with users and developers around the world), there are various places that contain documentation of the LinuxCNC project.

• The Download page for LinuxCNC

• HTML Documentation for the current release (best for online viewing)
  • All documentation in ( html )
• PDF Documentation for the current release (best for offline viewing):
  • Getting Started Guide - a short guide for getting and installing LinuxCNC . (En)(Fr)
  • User Manual - an extensive document about using LinuxCNC . (En)(Fr)
  • Integrators Manual - a more advanced document for machine builders. (En)(Fr )
  • HAL Manual - documentation for the realtime hardware abstraction layer (En)(Fr )
  • Component and command reference (En)
    

• Community maintained wiki with lots of information and examples.
• Upgrading information on the wiki .

• Lots of tips in the Frequently Asked Questions area

• Various Technical Articles describe LinuxCNC internals & usage.
  
  
• Documentation for the upcoming 2.5 release is available here .
  
  
• Documentation for the unreleased development version is available here .

Developer information

• • Developer's Manual - internal architecture, NML reference, homing procedures;
  • Becoming a contributor ;

General Information

• • A little bit of History about the EMC project
  • Some Events revolving around LinuxCNC.
  • Information about EMC2
  • Information about the release system
  • Information about submitting bug reports