Speakup Modified Red Hat 9?

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Thomas,

Exactly what happened to cause RH to yank Speakup?  Though it is very nice
to hear that Gnopernicus will soon be sufficiently prime time to be included
with a RH distro, there's absolutely nothing like having access to the
command line.  I could upgrade my system to RH 9, but I guess I'd require
sighted help to do the actual install, or I'd have to use that text telnet
console I suppose.  Then, I'd need to apply the Kernel RPM that includes the
Speakup mods.  If RH 9 config changed things so I lost SSH access to the
box, well, oopse, now I'm required to have sighted assistance.  Any ideas as
to some safe work-arounds?

Thanks.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup Modified Red Hat 9?


> Hi, Darrell.
> It is vary unlikely that Red Hat will resume speakup support in the next
> update to Red Hat when you take in account what happened with 8.0, and the
> reasons they dropped speakup in the first place.
> My take on it is Red Hat is looking at other accessibility options such as
> gnopernicus which may ship as early as this fall/winter on the next
releases
> of Red Hat and with the Gnome 2.4 desktop.
> Unlike speakup gnopernicus has full support for software speech, and will
> apeal to MS Windows users which just can't adapt to a commandline like you
> and I can.
>
>
>
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