heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu

[Anthony Creapeau]

What do you need a serial port for? I have a networking degree focusing on
Cisco devices and if there isn't a serial port you simply access it by USB
via a USB to serial adapter. Serial ports have been becoming more and more
extinct.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:41 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu

the solution to that is usb->serial converters.  I'm going to school for IT,
and hope to get a job in networking at some point soon, so made sure the
laptop I got had a serial port.  While this wasn't the only deciding factor,
it was pretty high on the list.  I was willing to sacrafice some of the 8 or
16 serial ports on certain laptops (why would someone want that many USB on
a laptop anyway)? for a serial port.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> Well, what about that gear that is probably in service all around that 
> uses serial ports for administration? I was thinking of going back to 
> school for a networking-related career, and from what I gather, RS232 
> could be the most important thing I could theoretically want on a laptop.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C.M. Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:24 PM
> Subject: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu
> 
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > I had a couple of observations that may not sit well with most of you
...
> >
> > Hardware synthesis is becoming obsolete.  Why?  More and more 
> > systems, especially laptops, are being manufactured without RS232 
> > ports.  When I buy my next laptop, I won't let the presence of RS232 
> > be a determining factor.  The vendors of USB synths won't release 
> > their product information, so these are unsupported.  Thus, I'm not 
> > buying one.  Who wants to do business with people like that anyhow?  
> > So it looks like software speech is the way of the future, at least for
me.
> > Next, software speech is more convenient, especially when using a 
> > laptop.  You have to carry one less peripheral with you.
> >
> > The question to ask is this.  Given the decline of hardware 
> > synthesis, is it really necessary to have speech support within the 
> > kernel itself?  Software synthesizers run in user mode, so the 
> > benefits of a speech-enabled kernel -- notably a talking boot process --
are lost.
> >
> > Comments are welcome.
> >
> > PS. I'm not a GUI user, so I'm arguing from a console / command-line 
> > perspective.
> >
> > -- Chris
> >
> >
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