Linux from Scratch

[Arthur Pirika]

Hi, just a note, I recently installed Gentoo, and noted that even though the 
latest kernel (gentoo-sources 2.6.12r9) was last modified a few days ago, it 
doesn't seem to have the latest speakup from cvs, with the new highlight 
tracking.
I'm currently contacting the gentoo-accessibility team to see if this can be 
fixed.
btw, if you would like to have braille access to gentoo, no prob. During 
install, just use gentoo-nofb as a boot parameter on the cd, and have a 
brltty binary at hand, as the current LiveCD doesn't have it. I'm working on 
this with the accessibility team, though.
then after installation, just "emerge brltty", and you'll have the latest 
stable (3.6.1) version.

thanks,
Arthur.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Turkington" <garry.turkington at acm.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Linux from Scratch


> Hi,
>
> I've built Gentoo several times which is a from-source distribution.  It's 
> nice because you get all the benefits of a fully build-it-yourself system 
> but things like the Gentoo install media and handbook remove the more 
> gratuitous difficulties.
>
> I personally learned a lot from the experience and would recommend it to 
> anyone who wants to get a better understanding of just how a Linux 
> distribution works 'under the hood'.  But since you have to do things like 
> write your own grub.conf, fstab files and so on it's not for the faint of 
> heart.
>
> Gentoo nicely comes with Speakup pre-patched and I've had the latest 
> 2.6.12-gentoor6 kernel speaking on an AMd64 system.
>
> Regards,
> Garry
>
> -- 
> Garry Turkington
> garry.turkington at gmail.com
>
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, ace wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Has anyone here ever done a Linux from Scratch installation?
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
>> If so, I would like to hear some feedback concerning this.  I wish to try 
>> it but would like the opinions of other people.  Is it easy to patch 
>> Speakup into such an installation?  I am guessing it is the same since 
>> one would be required to compile the kernel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robby
>>
>>
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