Speakup in Linux Open Source Summit

[Georgina Joyce]

Hello Janina,

I’m not sure if what you say is quite true. Yes for many distros we had to compile our own kernel. However, remember Slackware V4 had speakup included. I a m sure I was using Slackware V4 in 1999 talking to Kirk etc on speak freely.

Oh, those days of innocence!

Gena
> On 1 Apr 2019, at 10:25, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 2.)	This was often necessary because one had to compile one's own
> kernel in the early days of Speakup, starting with a download of kernel
> and speakup source, followed by the proper patch command, followed by
> the make config. There were no prepackaged kernels with Speakup until
> the early 2000's.
> 

Gena

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