Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I think you are a bit to optomistic. Because speakup works on Debian or 
arch doesn't mean that it'll work on arm. It's a different architecture.
Just figured I'd throw that out there.
On 2/20/2012 5:52 PM, Kyle wrote:
> From the website:
>
> What Linux distros will be supported at launch?
>
> Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We hope 
> to see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with newer 
> releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu can’t 
> commit to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able to 
> download distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is 
> released, and we will also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly 
> after release.
>
> So if Arch and Debian are supported, Speakup modules or kernels 
> compiled with Speakup should run without issues. Some software speech 
> synthesizers may have memory issues, but eSpeak is sure to run, as it 
> has an extremely low memory requirement.
>
> On a side note, I really want one of these things , and will likely 
> purchase one once the cases are available. Then I can try to get 
> Talking Arch running on it. I also wonder how easy it would be to get 
> bluetooth running on something like this. It looks like it would pair 
> well with a bluetooth keyboard and become a nice little portable 
> computer. This looks more and more like a fun little project to work 
> on for very little money. And with the right software, it will work 
> better than most of those notetaker thingies that still cost 100 times 
> as much as this baby, and that some people still buy for some reason. 
> Smile.
> ~Kyle
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