Care For A Little Moonshine?

Marcel Oats moats at orcon.net.nz
Thu Jul 12 14:46:06 EDT 2007


Ooo! thanks!
Looking forward to this one.
Marcel
At 03:57 p.m. 12/07/2007, you wrote:
>The Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution version of Fedora 7, "Moonshine," is
>now available. Once again we invite you to use our images and installation
>guidance to install Fedora 7, also known as "Moonshine," using your hardware
>speech synthesizer and the Speakup screen reader.  Downloadable images and
>documentation are available at our Internet address:
>
>http://SpeakupModified.Org
>
>You can also access the Speakup Modified Fedora files using ftp and rsync with
>commands such as:
>
>ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified/fedora/
>rsync -l speakupmodified.org::speakupmodified
>
>Please note that this initial release of the Speakup Modified Fedora 7 has not
>yet been fully tested. We welcome all reports of success or of failures with
>this new, highly revised installation media.
>
>The Speakup Modified Fedora provides:
>
>*       installation media adapted expressly for
>    those blind computer users who want to use the Speakup Linux screen reader
>to install a Fedora-style Linux on their computers. This means that the blind
>computer user will not require sighted assistance, and that the end 
>result will
>be an installation that talks every time it is booted.
>
>*       Other assistive technology including brltty, emacspeak,, and orca.
>*       It's all there--in the installation images.
>
>*       A preliminary revision of our famous Installation HOWTO to guide the
>*       novice and the advanced user through the installation process.
>
>*       A new mini-howto on using telnet to install the Speakup Modified at:
>
>         http://SpeakupModified.Org/telnet_installation.html
>
>But the Speakup Modified is much more than just installation media. 
>We now also provide:
>
>*       Support for TTSynth, the premier text to speech synthesizer for Linux,
>*       both on the console and the graphical desktop.
>
>         See http://TTSynth.Com to learn more.
>
>*       Regular builds of Firefox 3 providing industry leading accessible
>*       web browsing.
>
>*       A yum repository so you can update your Speakup Modified Fedora
>*       distribution the easy way--overnight in your sleep, for instance. In
>*       addition, there's a new Quick Tips file for using yum:
>
>         http://SpeakupModified.Org/yumming
>
>*       Both 32-bit and 64-bit packages.
>
>*       Fast and robust Internet connections on our new hosted servers, so
>*       that your downloads can proceed at maximum speed
>
>In the very near future we will also provide:
>
>* A Help Wiki and mini HOWTOs on various Linux topics that you can use both
>to learn from and also to share your own expertise with others.
>
>We know we've said this before--but it's absolutely true yet again! 
>rTthe newly
>released Fedora 7 is the most accessible Fedora yet. We're pleased we can once
>again facilitate your installation of Fedora without sighted assistance. And,
>we're pleased to facilitate your access to package updates as well as a first
>class accessible console and graphical desktop Linux experience.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>The Speakup Modified Team
>
>
>--
>
>Janina Sajka,   Phone:  +1.202.595.7777;        sip:janina at a11y.org
>Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC      http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
>Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada
>Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com
>
>Chair, Open Accessibility       janina at a11y.org
>Linux Foundation                http://a11y.org
>
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