Do they give the distro cds with theese preinstalled machines? Greg On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:58:31AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Charles: > > A couple of things about this: > > 1.) My experience with vendor installed linux is that they often don't > install alll the packages I need. I have seen this with my IBM laptop, > which came with Caldera 2.4 Desktop preinstalled, and with Redhat 7.0 (my > own installation), when I selected the "laptop" install. I have reverted > to doing custom installs. My experience is that the default vendor > installs are skewed toward the gui (not surprisingly) and that, therefore, > various console utilities are missing. Now, one can certainly add these by > hand, but it's just easier to install them up front and not mess with some > vendor's idea of what you should have; > > 2.) It is unlikely hp (or any other vendor) will speech-enable their > linux installs until these are part of the distributions themselves--until > speakup is part of Redhat, Debian, Slackware, etc. That's the effort that > will pay off best, imho; > > 3.) We may not actually want to speech enable your server. Radical as > that sounds, speakup does slow down the computer, in my experience. Kirk, > may not agree, but this is my experience, and that of several others. Let > me defend this suggestion by asking why we would put speech on the machine > if we're going to locate it at some server farm were we're never going to > see it? All administration will be done over the wire--so the machine > should be built optimized for access over the wire, and not for access on > a local console, imho; > > Just my two cents on this. Glad to see that you're getting more > comfortable about the commercial viability of linux, though! <big grin> > > On > Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Charles Crawford wrote: > > > I don't know what others may know about this, but I was impressed when I > > went over to the HP.com page to discover they have linux servers and > > desktops for sale. Very interesting indeed. Now I need to contact them > > and make sure they have the versions that support speech. Maybe, we could > > actually get them to offer speech interface as a feature when prchasing is > > made? > > > > -- Charlie. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, > Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > > Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther > King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at > http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > > Learn how to make accessible software at > http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
