Good news

[Tommy Moore]

Actually from what I've seen they've removed the Speakup kernels from the 
slackware-current distribution. Not sure if this is asking too much but 
having speakup in the default installation kernel would be really nice 
sice if people don't need it they won't be using it and then the cds will 
talk from the start instead of having to make boot floppies.

Tommy


On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick
> Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As you
> may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution.
> 
> I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then, he
> did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices, and
> I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too! And
> then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and NFBTrans
> (though maybe not in 8.1).
> 
> So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with
> Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of
> Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the Doubletalk
> PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility really
> does look good (IMHO).
> 
> Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware 8.1
> being released.
> 
> Saqib
> 
> 
> 
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