This brings up an interesting question for me. What about FREEBSD? As far as I know (little), Free BSD is open - wonder how hard it would be to port Speakup to that environment as well? On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > SUSE is a distribution of linux, in the same way as debian, slackware, > redhat and mandrake are. The issue with SUSE is mainly that, as far as I > know, no-one's made boot disks for it with speakup compiled in. Whether > this is because the SUSE installer is graphical and is thus unusable with > speakup, or merely that no-one's gotten around to doing it, I do not know. > > Speakup should run under all linux distributions for the PC, providing you > don't try to run it under Xwindows of course. AFAIK, speakup should work > under some other architectures with little or no modification, though this > is largely untested. For the moment, speakup can't run under any other > unix operating systems, as it needs to be compiled into the kernel which > obviously differs across operating systems. I don't know how many other > unix variants have kernels that would lend themselves to being modified > like this, but I dare say that such porting is a long way down any lists of > things to do. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
