Good news

[Alex Snow]

Hi All,
I'd also say to add speakup in the default kernel.  It makes it easer for
newbies, and for that matter anyone, to install slackware.  Messing with
those bootdisks is really a pane.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saqib Shaikh" <ss at saqibshaikh.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:40 AM
Subject: Good news


> 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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