Getting Speakup working on a server Linux OS

[Kelly Prescott]

Personally what I do is to use a centos distribution and hand-compile
a kernel to work.
then I exclude kernel* from updates.
I have also used gentoo and debian as well.
debian is probably the easiest for this kind of thing.
still, I like the tight rpm integration of cent5.
Just my $0.02

=-- Kelly Prescott


On 11/25/09, Garry Turkington <garrys.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's
> not hit my inbox or the archives.
>
> I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using
> CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express.  This last means I've remained
> reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery.
>
> In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment
> die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among
> other items.  So this gives me the opportunity to do some
> rationalization.  Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which
> will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host.
> Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of
> the server variants out there.
>
> With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably
> trivial as Speakup is my only dependency.  But if I need to use
> software speech -- and especially with my preference for some
> commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up
> working.
>
> This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have
> any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the
> dependencies.  I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it
> looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity.
> Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear
> of a time getting that to work.
>
> So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other
> recommendations?  I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing
> on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at
> least.  Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on
> dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server
> hosting many VMs extended uptime is important.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Garry
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