It should be noted that the freedom box stand-alone edition is more expensive then jfw or wineyes, so it would most likely not be a good solution in this case. I don't know the cost of the freedombox software off the top of my head, but it's not cheap either. Greg On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:32:05PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Rob. Let me try to answer some of your questions. As to why Speakup > doesn't support software synths, its bc it just wouldn't be viable for the > time being. The main problem is that sound drivers and other drivers for > such devices as usb port hubs don't load until the filesystems have been > mounted. This is particularly a problem for a user who wants or needs to > see all of the hardware boot messages. They wouldn't be able to read them. > Second, if they got a kernel panic for whatever reason i.e., bad root fs, > or other type of misconfiguration, the user would never know about it if > they were using a software sollution. In terms of GPL options for screen > readers for Windows. There are none as far as I know. There is of course > the freedom box, which may be a viable sollution in your case. If you want > to stay out of the realm of micro$, Linux is perhaps a good possibility. > There are many good mail readers such as Pine Elm etc. You probably know > this already bc you're running Slackware? You can write me privately at > igueths at attbi.com if you have any further questions. > > Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there! >
