Installing Slackware with Speakup and Espeak

[Alex Snow]

Making a custom distro just to get Gnome doesn't seem to be necessary as 
all the gnome packages for Slackware I have tried install with minimal 
work.

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:13:49PM -0500, Austin Seraphin wrote:
> Hi everyone, glad you like the idea. I found a great little tutorial
> called Cooking up some Slack:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Cooking_Up_Some_Slack_CUSS
> and it looks very doable, I feel comfortable with that, so will start
> looking around. I'll also check out the audio question, I agree, the
> installer probably doesn't for minimalist reasons. I would also love to
> see espeak integrated into the main Slackware distribution, especially
> given that the kernel already has the soft synth module, why not go the
> extra mile so to speak? On the other hand, I might also see a need for a
> custom distro, partially for the audio, but also because Slackware
> doesn't ship with Gnome any more. Why not trade KDE for Gnome,
> especially if one of the projects will let us use their work? Emacspeak
> even comes in /extra now, we could include that as well, why not? Either
> way, speakup and espeak would represent the core.
> 
> I'll start looking around and let you all know what I find, you can do
> the same, and maybe we can get something together. I've always liked
> Slackware also, and consider it the most accessible distribution.
> 
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