Installing Slackware with Speakup and Espeak

[Steve Holmes]

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This is interesting news indeed.  I've been a slackware user for over
15 years but over the past year I bounced around with Debian and now
have really come to like ArchLinux.  But I have an old laptop which
won't run any of the newer distros and Slackware is one distro whose
install disk still works on it.  I'd be interested in seeing how you
come out.  Since my main development machine is running Arch now, it
would be quite difficult to try and help out and build slackware
packages on it to try on my old laptop.  The laptop is much too slow
to go and compile kernels and build large packages like that.  But it
has a serial port so installing the old way with my external speakout
has not been a problem for me. 

I also agree however that software speech needs to be considered at
all points and should be a native part of install disks.  Another
thing to get the audio drivers to work and all is UDEV; I'm not
experienced with hardware detection but whatever you use to get speech
going needs to find the correct sound card to use.
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