This was promising, but I think it is a dead end. GRML appears to be fine, based on Debian and all, but the live CD with speakup is simply not usable in its present form due to the spelling bug. In this quest for a working live CD with software speech, I am beginning to notice tell-tail signs when something is worth following up on. After subscribing to the GRML users list, I downloaded all the mail archives and discovered that the last posting that was archived was in March and was somebody else trying to crack the spelling bug. Since yesterday, there was my question about the spelling bug and one other poster asking another question and that's pretty much it. the GRML live CD is from this Spring, but the speakup part is not functional so I guess it is time to move on. Willem van der Walt mentioned espeak. Google searches about espeak turn up comments and discussion from this year which is a good sign. I haven't heard espeak yet, but it is supposed to be a bit different in sound and in operating theory. Are there any live CD's not requiring gnome that use it? There is probably a lot of still useful hardware out in the world that is either not fast enough or doesn't have enough memory to run a GUI but will still scream through a command-line environment. We are basically back to a return of the original Linux installation quandary for those who can't use a screen if the system has no native RS-232 ports or a hardware speech device. So close and yet so far away. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list