slackware release

[Jude DaShiell]

April 29, 2011 Slackware released version 13.37.  This version offers the 
choice of kernels from 2.6.37, 2.6.38, and 2.6.39 in it.  Probably speakup 
was made to work with 2.6.37 but beyond that may be no man's land.  I have 
a subscription so expect i'll probably have a box arrive at the post 
office in a couple weeks and get to find out a few things.  
Unfortunately, slackware has committed to kde and the only gnome 
possibilities for it are either the stock gnome distribution from 
gnome.org and 3rd party offerings some of which do not include 
accessibility support.  I plan not to install kde on the new installation 
since my version of blindness is no useable vision from birth and kde 
accessibility may only be obtained by means of a complete rewrite of kde.  
In future, kde I think will be held up as an example of how not to write 
code so accessibility can't be bolted on later in those college courses 
that teach accessibility programming.  Work is under way for qt so 
eventually accessibility may be able to piggyback its way into kde on qt's 
back.