writing spk howto (?)

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

Hello,
I think the software speech howto is a good idea.
The problem is that we have new linux/unix users trying to do an install.
Even with sighted assistence, one should try to keep things as easy as 
posible.  General instructions tend to pre-suppose unix knowledge where 
distribution specific instructions might not.
I think one should as far as posible, do a combination of general and 
distribution specific instructions.
With the latter, one can give a complex command without explaining it all, 
but knowing the platform, be reasionable sure things will work.


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Sure. That would be great. But I have often read a howto that addresses
> only a single distro, relying on distro specific stuff, with no notion
> that people using other distros might be out there as well. We get
> enough of that from Redmond.
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
>> I aggree with you in a general way, but wonder whether you'd also agree
>> that one should, when possible, stick to standard procedures on one's
>> distro. In other words, when on Debian, install a .deb if you can, and
>> when on Fedora, use an rpm if you can, etc., etc.
>> 
>> Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
>>> David,
>>> 
>>> I presently have software speech running on my Slackware 10.0 distro,
>>> using version 0.5rc3 of speech-dispatcher, and would be happy to share
>>> my setup with you or help in any other way with the howto. It would be a
>>> valuable contribution to make such a document available, particularly if
>>> it were not specific to any one distro.
>>> 
>>> Chuck
>>> 
>>> 
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