Speakup and phoebe

[Alex Snow]

That's why I use slackware

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Aaron Howell wrote:

> RedHat didn't drop speakup.
> They never included it in the first place.
> The fact that speakup made it into redHat 8 was entirely to do with the fact that they were using an alan Cocks patched version of 2.4.18,
> which happened to include speakup.
> Now they aren't using a -ac kernel so no more speakup.
> it wasn't a conscious decision on the part of RedHat.
> RedHat in fact is very resistant to including third party accessibility software - just try to get permission to use speakup or any other screen reader for that matter in your RHCE exam and find out how much success you don't have.
> This is a bit of an inditement on RedHat actually, but its a good thing for distros like Slackware and Debian who can create a bit of a nitch market amongst the vision impaired.
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:17:26AM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version?  It
> > sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel.  So, they
> > should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a
> > Speakup-enabled kernel or not.  BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has
> > Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup.  It is
> > down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third
> > option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will
> > supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one.
> > I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting.  I
> > sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in the
> > wrong direction.
> >
> >
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