Fedora

[Janina Sajka]

jim grimsby writes:
> 
>   2.
> > is the sftsyn driver compiled in to the kernel.
> 
> No. They're modules.
> Ok is that module included. 

Absolutely. For every supported synth. You just have to wire them
in--which is the business about creating an initrd as explained in the HOWTO.

> > 3. I read on the apt how to that Fedora  uses apt.  So I can still use
> 
> > apt-get to get programs with it if I decide to use it on my linux box.
> 
> Not exactly. Fedora does not ship apt. You'll not find it installed by
> the Speakup Modified. However, it is available, should you prefer to use
> it.
> 
> The preferred package manager on Fedora is yum.
> But I can use them both right?  So for example if I want to use apt to
> get speech-dispatcher I can but I should use yum as described in your
> wonderful how to install to update the distro. 

First, thanks for the compliment.

You can certainly use them both without trouble, because each is a front
end to rpm which does the real work. But, you'll not install
speech-dispatcher via apt or yum for the same reason, namely that no one
has created an rpm package for speech-dispatcher yet. 

> Also does it include emacs and emacspeak.  Thanks!


Yes, but you'll have to do the last steps to get emacspeak working by
hand. Furthermore, you'll probably want to upgrade emacspeak, which is
available in an rpm.

				Janina