Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[Alex Snow]

Speakup seems to be ok on archs other then x86...I've had it running on 
both Sparc and Pa-Risc systems without modifications, and there have 
been reports of it liking Alpha also.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:02PM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> 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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