your opinions please

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Sat Jul 13 00:04:38 EDT 2002


Hi all.

I would appreciate any comments people might have on the following.

I've been thinking that "speakup enabled distribution of partition image" is kind of awkward. Since partition image has been shortened to "partimage", and since "zipslack" became "zipspeak" when speakup was added to it, how about calling the speakup distribution of "partimage" "speakimage"?

I am almost ready for the release. All I've got left to do is to make the serial console root disk, and to create a cd image with both serial console and speakup kernels. I plan to start the release version at 0.6.1, and raise them as the release versions of partition image are raised. 

One big way that speakimage will differ from partimage is that it will have a 3rd disk, which will contain drivers for usb and 10/100 mbit ethernet. These drivers along with copies of insmod, rmmod, modprobe, and lsmod  will be on both the 3rd floppy and on the bootable cd. 
Also, if we accept the name "speakimage", is there an easy way to find out if we're violating any trade marks? I wouldn't want to get us in trouble.
Greg





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