What does it take to fork the kernel?

[Bill Cox]

Ok, thanks for the feedback.  So, now I've got a vote not to change
the default settings, which I guess cancels the one vote to change
them.  To date, Vinux is primarily a platform that talks, and comes
with speakup using espeak by default, so I guess there's not much
advantage to a custom kernel (whew!).

I have run Ubuntu Lucid Alpha without gdm installed so that you boot
into a console read by speakup.  I do like that mode.  However, I
think the "standard" Vinux ISO will have gdm, but a "CLI" version
could be built without it.

The problem with building a Debian package for each new kernel Ubuntu
ships is that users will find that speakup stops talking after random
upgrades.  I'm tempted instead to detect that soft_synth isn't loading
properly, and then to compile a new speakup during boot.

Thanks for the rapid feedback.
Bill

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM, tony seth <lp800 at samobile.net> wrote:
> Hi there:  I can only really answer one of yer questions, but if you're
> using software speech for Speakup, I don't think you'll have to worry about
> rambling kernel messages, as software speech takes long enough that you
> won't hear anything until you actually go to a console and hit enter or
> something.  I didn't get rambling kernel messages until I changed the
> modules file to load the doubletalk and now I get everything, which I like.
>  Actually I remember the first time I encountered Speakup on the Vinux 2.0
> cd I liked knowing that when Orca would die that I could just jump into a
> console and software speech would just work, or I could switch over to the
> doubletalk if I wanted to.
> Anyway, hope that helps a little, sorry for the rambling message...
> Cheereo!
>
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