Speakup in Linux Open Source Summit

[Gregory Nowak]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:40:56PM -0700, Chris Brannon wrote:
> There was also a thing called zipspeak, which ran a full talking Linux
> environment under MSDOS.  It was Slackware-based.  This was how I
> bootstrapped: running zipspeak for a month or so to learn the ropes, and
> then installing Slackware with the Speakup-enabled floppies and a set of
> Slackware CDs I ordered from Walnut Creek / BSDI.

Yes, I started with zipspeak/zipslack as well, running off the root of a win98
drive. It's because of zipslack that slackware was the first
distribution I installed as a separate OS. instead of something
else. Those were the days.

Greg


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