Folks might also remember Matt for trplayer, which was a Linux console
player for RealAudio streams.
Wow it has been a long time indeed, but I actually do remember trplayer. I didn't use zipslack or zipspeak, but I did start with Slackware running the speakup.i kernel. I very quickly switched to Red Hat 9 because it had more available packages,, but I did have to use the telnet install at that time with a second computer that had Speakup already installed, because there was no precompiled speakup kernel at that time, but I braved kernel compilation to get Red Hat working and speaking, especially after I figured out just how easy it was to build rpm packages at that time. Actually, it's still fairly easy to build rpm packages these days, even though the system is a bit more complex than it once was. Fortunately we have really good package management now that we didn't have back in those days. Still, even with the evolution of Linux over the years, it is still by far the easiest to use, especially since I'm a bit too old now to learn the latest Microsoft crap that I abandoned so many years ago.
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