Hello Joseph, Yes, this sounds like an excellent project. Perhaps a CD setup like this could also be used for a boot/recovery disk for any distro? Please keep us posted. --terry On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:35:51PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > Yes I am aware of them. This project has been being privately worked on for > a few months now. I wasn't going to say anything until I was closer to > releasing something, but now that I've shot off my mouth, I might as well > be out with it... What I am working on is a complete CD based Linux system. > The next test release is going to have softsynth and flite built in, so you > could in theory use it to install any hd based distro you chose once you > booted the CD. It is similar in concept to knoppix, but the goals of the > project are quite different. The developer team has been working steadily > on the project for about 3 months or so. We're finishing up version 0.5 > now, 0.6 is supposed to be the first publically available release and is > targeted for a release date of November 15, 2004. If you are interested in > testing the next version (0.5) we could use a couple more developers on the > development team. Email me privately if you are interested. > > jbahm at pcdesk.net > > Anyway, that is the solution I am working on. Like I said, you should be > able to boot the CD and then use it to load what ever flavor of Linux on to > your hard drive you wanted. I don't know the details of how to do each one > because that was not the original goal, but it occured to me later on in > the process that you could do this if you wanted. If people are interested > in this project, I could definitely post more information. > -- > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm at pcdesk.net > Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:19 PM > Subject: Re: serial conversion with speakup > > > >On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:52:36PM EST, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > >>I'm not trying to be mysterious or anything, but I am currently working > >>on > >>a fix for that particular problem. I should have a beta version available > >>by the middle to end of the month. (November) > > > >Do you mean installation using software seech? > > > >If so, are you aware of the obsticals that have to be overcome? > > > >Luke > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
