serial conversion with speakup

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hello Joseph,

	Yes, this sounds like an excellent project. Perhaps a CD setup like this could also be used for a boot/recovery disk for any distro?

	Please keep us posted.

	--terry

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:35:51PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Yes I am aware of them. This project has been being privately worked on for 
> a few months now. I wasn't going to say anything until I was closer to 
> releasing something, but now that I've shot off my mouth, I might as well 
> be out with it... What I am working on is a complete CD based Linux system. 
> The next test release is going to have softsynth and flite built in, so you 
> could in theory use it to install any hd based distro you chose once you 
> booted the CD. It is similar in concept to knoppix, but the goals of the 
> project are quite different. The developer team has been working steadily 
> on the project for about 3 months or so. We're finishing up version 0.5 
> now, 0.6 is supposed to be the first publically available release and is 
> targeted for a release date of November 15, 2004. If you are interested in 
> testing the next version (0.5) we could use a couple more developers on the 
> development team. Email me privately if you are interested.
> 
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
> 
> Anyway, that is the solution I am working on. Like I said, you should be 
> able to boot the CD and then use it to load what ever flavor of Linux on to 
> your hard drive you wanted. I don't know the details of how to do each one 
> because that was not the original goal, but it occured to me later on in 
> the process that you could do this if you wanted. If people are interested 
> in this project, I could definitely post more information.
> --
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: serial conversion with speakup
> 
> 
> >On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:52:36PM EST, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> >>I'm not trying to be mysterious or anything, but I am currently working 
> >>on
> >>a fix for that particular problem. I should have a beta version available
> >>by the middle to end of the month. (November)
> >
> >Do you mean installation using software seech?
> >
> >If so, are you aware of the obsticals that have to be overcome?
> >
> >Luke
> >
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