Hi, Cecil, and welcome to the speakup list. I think we can tell already you'll be an asset here! <grin> I would agree with you about the SSH clients available in Cygwin, but I just don't know that it's all that valuable to install such a large footprint for just a tiny component. And, once installed, it's still only a PC Console application which won't run any differently than the PC Console executables in the ssh.com package. At least, the ssh.com package goes both ways--command line and gui. As to compiling kernels, fear not. In fact, I think I can put you at ease about kernels very easily. Are you aware that you can have several kernels waiting at the ready when you boot? You can choose one one time, and a different one another time. So, the magic trick with kernels is to get one working more or less as you need. Thereafter, as long as you take care not to trash that one, you can simply add without penalty. It's really quite cool. Also, another way to think of custom kernels is to see them as a customized sports car. The stock distribution gives you a stock sedan. When you customize, you get to tweak your performance. Also quite cool. Again, welcome. On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Whitley GS11 Cecil H wrote: > Hi, > I just joined the list today. In reviewing the last month I noticed this > thread. I use open ssh that comes with the cygwin distribution. It works > well for me. I am running nt 4.0 with jaws. > On the unix/linux side I maintain five solaris 2.6 boxes and one rh 7.1 box > running squid. It will soon be two, and maybe even a third as m.s. proxy > goes in the dustbin. I have been very interested in speakup, but haven't > installed it yet. My holdup is determining which machine (desktop or > laptop) and not wantin to o through the pain of re-partitioning. Since I > run NT on the desktop, i'll have to repartition in order to load it there, > but that avoids the laptop keyboard limitation issues, not to mention > pcmcia. > Why redhat? That's the flavor that dell supports on their servers when you > call in hardware issues. > The thought of building my own kernel gives me nightmares! Okay, so that's > a dos-ism..... I'll get over it. For ya'll whom are running redhat, is > 2.4.3-12 advisable? > Regards, > Cecil > > _______________________________________________ > 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
