writing spk howto (?)

[Sean McMahon]

The hardest thing for me when following howtos, is there are things which are
distro specific and things which don't behave the same way on each distro.  The
mkinitrd command on Debian V. Fedora is a good example.  If you are going to
write a non-distro specific howto, it has to either be entirely non-distro
specific or must explain some of the things you tried as specific to your
distro.  I don't want to sound to "idiot proof", but these things are being read
by people like myself who come from a computer world where things either work or
don't and little tweeking.
</rant>
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: writing spk howto (?)


> 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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