Ignoramus21067 wrote:

To put this bluntly, if I can convert this mill to something I can
control with a (preferably Linux) PC, I will keep this mill.

I do not know even the basics of CNC, so I do not know what interfaces
with what and what can be replaced.

Is that a 2 dimensional CNC machine? (I know that it is a dumb idea to
ask at this point in the game).

I'm sure you have run into http://www.linuxcnc.org/

I believe Winston uses emc2.
Jon Ellison is very active with that iirc.

They have a forum:

http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/op.../lang,english/

There is also an email discussion list.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

I'm a lurker, I don't have a machine to cnc YET. I'll likely do one of the Seig X?
conversions since a cnc mill is way more interesting to me than a lathe.

Wes