Hi Thomas, Exactly what happened to cause RH to yank Speakup? Though it is very nice to hear that Gnopernicus will soon be sufficiently prime time to be included with a RH distro, there's absolutely nothing like having access to the command line. I could upgrade my system to RH 9, but I guess I'd require sighted help to do the actual install, or I'd have to use that text telnet console I suppose. Then, I'd need to apply the Kernel RPM that includes the Speakup mods. If RH 9 config changed things so I lost SSH access to the box, well, oopse, now I'm required to have sighted assistance. Any ideas as to some safe work-arounds? Thanks. Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications! Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator! A+, CCNA, Network+! Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Speakup Modified Red Hat 9? > Hi, Darrell. > It is vary unlikely that Red Hat will resume speakup support in the next > update to Red Hat when you take in account what happened with 8.0, and the > reasons they dropped speakup in the first place. > My take on it is Red Hat is looking at other accessibility options such as > gnopernicus which may ship as early as this fall/winter on the next releases > of Red Hat and with the Gnome 2.4 desktop. > Unlike speakup gnopernicus has full support for software speech, and will > apeal to MS Windows users which just can't adapt to a commandline like you > and I can. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
