Hello.

First question, does somebody can briefly explain what's different between LinuxCNC and MachineKIT?

I understand machinekit's community forked from LinuxCNC a lot time ago and tried to use a somewhat different HAL layer model which allowed them to create a working setup for Beagle Bone Black, but I don't exactly get it, there is a HAL in LinuxCNC as well, so why this is not possible with LinuxCNC?

Nowdays, the machinekit's web-site is fairly broken and outdated.

The main project on github of machinekit is archived and replaced by machinekit-cnc and machinekit-hal but I don't get to find any resource when or why this was done.

Another set of questions I have are:

- Is machinekit up to date with LinuxCNC?

- Is machinekit maintained?

- Is the BBB machinekit image still relevant (up-to-date)?

- Should I consider BBB with machinekit for a CNC build? Or should I go for LinuxCNC with mesa cards?