I found this page with good information on some of the software, so I thought I add this link even though I haven't gotten to this point yet. I'll just keep adding pages and links and whatever information I find as it comes along. I'll just try to keep the pages in order so I know what I need to do next or look into.
http://www.probotix.com/cnc_software/
For designing, I found the design sparks seems to work okay. It has a few minor bugs, but it's much better than any other free program I have tried so it's worth the look.
http://jaimenow.blogspot.com/p/designspark-by-space.html
As for the linux cam software, just check out linux cnc. Many people seem to be using it without a problem, but there is a learning curve.
http://www.linuxcnc.org/
January 22, 2015
Smoothie is a free, opensource, high performance and modular G-code interpreter and CNC controller for the LPC17xx micro-controller
http://smoothieware.org/
http://replicat.org/generators
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I may try to use the latest LTS of ubuntu and run virtual box with the linux cnc. I hope that works because when I tried the linux cnc, it didn't pick up a few things and the latest version picks up more drivers than before which is nice. I also accidentally updated the os and it pretty much screwed up things as it updated everything and I lost the cnc stuff. This way I don't have to worry about that and whatever weird setup the linux cnc has.
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