Hello. As always, feel free to correct me if I missed something. I looked seriously at Mandrake to determine how difficult it would be to add Speakup. I will admit that I really am new at kernel compiling but I have got some kernels to compile before. Anyway, maybe the source is available out there somewhere but I could not find it. I thought I found it but it did not look useable for my purposes. Likewise with SUSE. If there is a way and someone can outline the necessary files to get and steps involved, I would attempt to get Speakup working with other distros.
