Cool! Never even thought of that use for the Real OS. The best OS! The world's most flexible OS! I guess we Linux-lovers can tell the rest of the world that even if they hate Linux, there is still an extremely good use for it when nothing else works. Personally, I avoid the problem altogether and use Linux as much as possible. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Patrick Turnage staggered into view and mumbled: > Hello > I think that RH has a really good reason for keeping speakup out of the > kernel at this time. They have some valid complaints about it and when > those are addressed it probably will end up in the distribution again. > I do think if you want to take the RHCE exams they should be a little more > occomidating. > They have the right to make whatever policy they want with regard to their > exam documentation but a NDA is a binding contract between RH and the > person taking the exam. > If you want to write to RH it should be to ask them to attempt to develop > policies that allow disabled persons to take part in their training > matterial and to have some equal or as close to equal access during the > RHCE exams.. > Oh on another note.. I had a computer wqith windows XP. It for some reason > did not boot.. I took a standard slack root disk and a custom kernel and > loadlin put it on a cd and connected my usb hard drive and backed up all > my data.. Linux is flexible it has saved me more times thatn I can even > count.. Once I used Linux on a zip drive for a month while my notebook's > hard drive was off being repaired. With a little customization only booting > was the issue.. Of course after a month of use that zip disk stopped > working but still. > I see all these MCSE's walking around my college campus and when I talk to > them about Linux for access to hard drives that have failed they just say > they don't use it.. I'm glad I learned it and to anybody who is just > begining to explore Linux your doing yourself a favor.. > sincerely, > Patrick > > > ----- > Patrick Turnage > E-mail: pturnage at tampabay.rr.com > AOL Instant Messenger: kg4dqk > Home Page: > http://www.access-connect.com > Connecting the world to access technology information. > For all mainstream and adaptive hardware and software. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
