A few things

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
Thank you to all the people who told me where to find modified Debian 
installation media, it worked fine to set up Debian, my problem was typing 
"linux" as the kernel image instead of "speakup". Unfortunately Debian does 
not seem to suit me, in fat, I have tried a few distributions, and Slackware 
seems to be the one that suits me best. I just need some help with a couple 
of things with Slackware though.

I am having problems with flite compiling on slackware. I have done some 
searches on the internet to find a solution, and I think I found a message 
on this list that said with the right patch it will compile. What is that 
patch, and where do I find it? I know I can use rpm packages with the 
rpm2tgz tool, but I find getting those rpm's seems to take time to download, 
so building from source is preferred.

Also I would prefer to try and use festival for software synthesis rather 
than flite, but I can't work out how I start it in the start up scripts. If 
I add "festival --server" where "festival" includes the path to the binary, 
the system stops loading. I think it is running festival as a server as if 
you typed it at a command prompt, and like from the command prompt, it does 
not return to accept more commands. What would be the best way to start it 
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local?

A more general question is what is a good web browser? Links2 has java 
script, but does not seem to have cookies. Elinks has cookies and very 
limited java script, but not enough for some websites I need to visit. I 
know that there is meant to be good accessibility support being built into 
Mozilla, but I don't think it is properly completed, any knowledge of that?

From
Michael Whapples
"An optimist is someone who has never had much experience"