ETA on Linux and Galileo

Blake Ebsary

Blake Ebsary

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It's too early here in NZ... I'm not thinking right. I ment Beidou haha. I know we can track the constellation with our LS's but are they being used in any solutions yet?
 
Darren Clemons

Darren Clemons

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I’d say it’d be a safe bet to say the Galileo update in Jfield may have been put on the back burner with all that’s been going on with the migration to Linux. Only a little over two and a half months til leaves will be gone and it won’t make as much of a difference. I’ve resigned it’ll be next spring before we really get to see what significant difference it makes - hopefully.
 
Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson

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Darren Clemons said:
Galileo update in Jfield may have been put on the back burner with all that’s been going on with the migration to Linux
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A completely different team of people work on the GNSS firmware and RTK engines than do the people who development the OS and J-FIeld so this is not true.
 
Darren Clemons

Darren Clemons

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I’ve decided after the Linux and now with this Galileo in flux, maybe we’d all of been better off if we’d never even known about either of them being “almost ready”. Just get an update that says “here is a complete OS change” or “here, now your system works with Galileo “.

I realize the design teams (two different ones we now know) are doing everything they can and want the product as bug free as it can be before it’s released - and we all want that too, but my patience is sorta like the Queen song lyrics say - “I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.” :)
 
Patrick Garner

Patrick Garner

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Does anyone on staff have a clue? If not, might be helpful to say so. If there's a projected date, that would be great as well.
 
Nate The Surveyor

Nate The Surveyor

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Keep in mind... The team making this happen, could have it ready tomorrow. Then, tomorrow night a bug is found, that takes a week or 2 to solve, rewrite, and redesign the software.
It's just "how it works". Then, after the rewrite, another bug shows up... 4 day delay.
Anyway, a round of applause for the programmers.
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Darren Clemons

Darren Clemons

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Nate The Surveyor said:
Keep in mind... The team making this happen, could have it ready tomorrow. Then, tomorrow night a bug is found, that takes a week or 2 to solve, rewrite, and redesign the software.
It's just "how it works". Then, after the rewrite, another bug shows up... 4 day delay.
Anyway, a round of applause for the programmers.
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Absolutely agree, but there will be bugs even after it’s released - like there was/is with Linux. A lot of them aren’t found until we, the users, get em out in the deep, dark dungeons we go to. It’s impossible for the engineers to duplicate all the conditions and scenarios we put this LS through.

Get it out - on a “choose to try” kind of update, as we had when we migrated to Linux. Let the ones of us who are willing to test it out (that would be me :)) give it a whirl and we can report back issues from actual heavy field use. A ton of Linux stuff was identified in the first two weeks - and they immediately fixed it.

Of course, these Galileo issues may well be something that pure field testing wouldn’t help with, just a thought.
 
Clay Davidson

Clay Davidson

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10 BDU AND 5 GAL
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