Hey, Debee: So great to see you on the Speakup list. Welcome. I remember so well how you pushed me to sign up for Netcom back in the 1980's. I wouldn't do it because it was a toll call. You were right! Debee Norling writes: > Zipspeak is running just wonderfully on my Toshiba Libretto. I'm a newbie, > but I try to read everything I can find. > > If you're looking for something PDA-like, let me suggest this machine; they > frequently sell now for as low as $350 on Ebay and have very popular support > on the net. Toshiba still has DOS/Windows drivers available and many Linux > enthusiasts use these mini-notebooks as well. Google for Libretto and you'll > find weeks of reading! > > The Libretto is about the size of a videocassette and weighs a bit over a > pound. Mine is a 75MHZ Pentium, but later models are faster. Even so, after > running Windows for a decade, I'm amazed how fast Linux is! > > It is truly cool to have Linux in my purse. The numeric keypad is > integrated; you have to hold down the "FN" key while pressing character > keys. With a little practice, most of the SpeakUp commands can be accessed > by touch typing from the home row. > > I haven't had this much fun with computers in years! There is still a lot I > have to figure out, like how to get my PCMCIA ethernet and my other PCMCIA > Wi-fi card working under Linux. And much of the documentation assumes I'm > already a wizard ... but hobbies are supposed to be challenging! > > Is the current version of ZipSpeak based on Slackware 8.1? It appears so. > Is there a later version? The maintainer's web page doesn't seem to work. I > know Matt Campbell was the first maintainer, but according to the readme, > the current maintainer is at the non-working URL: www.saqibshaikh.com > > The readme that came with Zipspeak said this distribution was especially for > beginners and stated that it would be easy to add additional packages from > the Slackware distribution, and that documentation was included. But now I'm > running ZipSpeak, I can't find documentation on how to add more packages. It > might be there and I'm not looking in the right place. I wouldn't worry > about this so much except that one of the packages that seems to be missing > is Info. All the docs on the net suggest that beginners read info pages. So > I think I need the documentation package to read the documentation! > > > > -- Debee > (Deborah Norling) > Alternate Media Specialist > DeAnza College > Phone: 408-864-5815 > Work: norling deborah "AT" deanza.edu > Home: debee "At" jfcl.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
