Linux from Scratch

[hank smith]

does speak up come with a software speech oppsion?
also what package does gento use? rpm or .deb?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Pirika" <apirika at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: Linux from Scratch


> 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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