speakup modified slackware ISO's may be removed

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Have the images indeed been removed? If so, have they been mirrored/can be downloaded from an alternate url? Reason I ask is because despite the low number of downloads right now, someone 
along the line may want the image. Therefore I figured I'd mirror it here. 
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:49:39AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Just one question: If you go ahead and remove the ISO's , how easy was
> it for you to build these other images? I was thinking of maintaining
> the configs for the respective kernels and just build the respective
> ISO on the fly if/when needed.  I have the original basic ISOs here
> but figured I could perhaps precompile the other default kernels and
> keep them around for whenever I would need an ISO to contain it.
> 
> Does that sound feasible?
> 
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:04:55PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > As you may or may not know, I currently maintain Slackware ISO images that 
> > contain speakup in all kernels, not just in one or two. This has the 
> > advantage that you can use any kernel on the CD that you choose for the 
> > install. This allows for things like installing to XFS root filesystems, 
> > using any of the available SCSI kernels, etc. Anyway, I am writing to this 
> > list to enquire if these images are currently being used. I have not 
> > noticed any downloads of the images for some time. I am thinking of 
> > discontinuing this project. If the project is not of any use to anyone, 
> > then I don't see the point in spending the time to maintain it (not that 
> > much actually), or in reserving the disk space on the ftp server for the 
> > images. (this constitutes a pretty signifficant amount of space) If anyone 
> > is using these speakup modified ISO images, please let me know. Otherwise, 
> > I will take them down and discontinue development on them.
> > --
> > Joseph C. Lininger
> > jbahm at pcdesk.net
> > Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> > 
> 
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