Congratulations Bill and Janina! Don't know enough about the modified files, but am very happy about Redhat 8.0! -- Charlie. At 02:13 PM 9/28/02 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Friends: > >It now seems all but official. Even the Red Hat Home Page is featuring >articles about Red Hat 8.0 which plainly state it >will be released this coming Monday, September 30. I am delighted to >inform you that Speakup and the Speakup keymap are >included in this release. Sites such as Linux Central are already taking >orders, but we suggest you wait to get CD ROMs >directly from Red Hat for less, unless, of course, you actually want to >pay more for those printed manuals. In the long >standing tradition, iso images will also be available for download from >mirror sites worldwide. And, I am hard at work >writing changes to our web page on the Speakup web site--and editing the >HOWTO to reflect this exciting development. > >Congratulations to Bill Acker for his patience and perseverance working >over the past few years with various staffers >from Red Hat, on several Red Hat lists, and with us on the Speakup >Modified. Bill's the real reason Speakup is now >officially part of the Red Hat distribution, and there's a README about >accessibility support in Red Hat products which >singles him out. Way to go, Bill! > >There is a question, though, for which we want guidance from the community >on the Speakup list. Here's the simple >question: > >Should we continue to offer the old, now about to be defunct, Speakup >Modified version 7.3? Is there some special reason >to keep those files around? For a little while? For a longer while? How >long? And for what purpose? > >The days of the Speakup Modified have come to an end, and we're happy >about it. But, if folks here find it useful, Kirk >would probably not mind those older files hanging around awhile longer. > >What do you think? Let us know your thoughts. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
