I believe that you can get an educational license for Solaris source code. Still, as has been said, their are enough differences that porting Speakup to Solaris would be a huge undertaking. It would also probably, at least partially, split the two source trees, linux and solaris. Chris On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote: > For additional comments please refer to Kerry's excellent message. It would be > really neat if we could port Speakup to Sollaris. I doubt that SUN would be > interested, well, perhaps. How about if we try to send a note to Sollaris > developers. Perhaps they will write their own "Speakup"! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros at ycardz.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:33 AM > Subject: Re: speakup on a sparc > > > | Well, Kirk can address this better, but I don't see any reason why you > | can't run Linux on a Sparc *if* you're running Linux for a Sparc processor. > | Since Speakup is of course specifically a patch into the Linux kernel, I > | doube it can be patched into a Solaris kernel. > | > | -- > | Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV > | Email: davros at ycardz.com > | Voice mail: 877-791-5298 > | All opinions are all mine! > | > | _______________________________________________ > | Speakup mailing list > | Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > | http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
