Questions about orca and speakup

[randy turner]

hi Michael

where can i download the iso of that cd
that you are talking about?
thanks in advance
randy

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Michael Whapples wrote:

> Hello,
> I have been trying to get orca, but with very little success, garnome didn't
> seem to want to compile everything successfully on my slackware machine (it
> seemed to fail when compiling HAL). Then when searching around about orca
> and other systems, I noticed that FreeBSD had it in ports, and being
> interested in what FreeBSD is liike (and also having a blank partition on my
> computer where a dead version of windows used to reside), I decided to try
> FreeBSD (requiring working through a serial console to get it setup). It
> seemed to be going OK, util network was to be connected to get internet
> access, where up on the kernel seems to have a problem and the machine gets
> restarted. Then hearing more good reports of Ubuntu from someone nearby, I
> decided to try that out, success finally, the CD booted and orca started
> speaking fine. Now orca, from what I can tell on the ubuntu CD will solve
> some of those difficulties of Linux that requires me to keep at least one
> computer with a copy of windows (mainly the browser not supported issues and
> javascript things).
>
> Now for the actual questions. Would it be worth trying to persue installing
> gnome and orca in slackware, or would it be simpler to move over to ubuntu
> and having to move all configuration? Remember that both could co-exist for
> some time as I have that blank partition. Also if I was to move to ubuntu,
> is there a speakup package, or would it require a custom kernel? Also is
> there anything I should know about having both orca and speakup on a system,
> e.g. changing speakup to no synth before starting orca?
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
>
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