new speakup enabled version of KNOPPIX announced

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, John:

I'm trying to boot this knoppix with no success so far on an old Pentium
2. Of course, it's hard to tell you what's going wrong since I get no
speech whatsoever. So, let me just ask a few things:

1.)	Can you please put an MD5SUM on line for this iso image?

2.)	Is the command sequence first the longish command that starts
"knoppix" as given in your README? Should there then be speech before
one types "exit"? Or does one first type "exit"?

3.)	Should I expect this knoppix to work with the Doubletalk
internal? Or only serial synths?

4.)	There seems to be some variance in spelling knoppix. The
directory name is all lower case, but the iso filename has KNOPPIX all
upper case. Just to confirm, the boot command begins knoppix all lower
case, is that correct?

John covici writes:
> I am pleased to announce that I have made a speakup enabled version
> of KNOPPIX version 3.4 which is available as an iso image in the
> directory pub/speakup/disks/knoppix at ftp.braille.uwo.ca .
> 
> There is one small bug in the kernel 2.4 boot, but otherwise the
> package seems to work OK.  Changes from the standard KNOPPIX are
> listed in the file README.speakup in the same directory.
> 
> KNOPPIX is a live Linux on cd which is good for a rescue disk and
> other applications where you cannot get to your existing Linux or
> even if you don't have Linux on your system at allyou can use the cd
> to start learning Linux.
> 
> I know of one minor bug that if you boot with the 2.4.26 kernel you
> may have to type exit during the boot before continuing.  Otherwise
> it works fine on my system so if I don't hear soon I will upload the
> bug fixed version in a few days.
> 
> Have fun.]
> 
> -- 
>          John Covici
>          covici at ccs.covici.com
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040