Hi. I just installed Gentoo on a new system last week. I just
downloaded and burned their livecd. I had to use the "smp" kernel to
get speakup, but It worked. I wouldn't recommend installing Gentoo
unless you have a lot of time and want to learn how a Linux system is
built up. If you use the "gentoo-dev-sources" kernel source when you
build the kernel you will get a 2.6.5 kernel with a recent version of
speakup. The version of speakup still has the cut and paist bug, so you
will probably be better off emerging cvs and building your kernel from
kernel.org sources. Either way, you will be building a kernel during
the install.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:25:52AM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks to everybody who got me going with a Speakup-enabled 2.6.6 kernel.
> And now, for another question. Currently I'm using Debian 3. However, I've
> always been a bit fascinated with Gentoo's Portage system, which downloads
> packages as source then compiles them right on the spot. I probably won't
> switch actually, but has anybody managed to get a talking Gentoo install
> using Speakup, and if so, how?
> As for stability, etc. is Gentoo pretty stable? I'm using Debian 3 stable
> which, as many of you probably know, is quite a bit out of date. I would
> assume Gentoo would be more current.
> Thanks for any advice and thoughts.
> Jayson.
>
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