Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

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On 2/20/2012 6:25 PM, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
> I guess you could always put Android , or Chrome on it.
> But I will bet that speakup will work just fine.
> Anyone want to recommend a good cli word processor?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy at brannan.name>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone thought about raspberry pie?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, Arm is a different architecture, but that doesn't mean Speakup 
> won't compile for it. Doesn't mean it will, but it seems to me that it 
> should. Well, for $35, I reckon a bunch of us can get them and play 
> around with them, anyway. I'm game. And, speak should work, I mean, 
> they got it to work on Android, and most of those devices are Arm-based.
> -- 
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:52 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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