Hi all, I'm going to go ahead and keep the images available on the ftp server. The response against removing them was strong enough that I think I have enough of an audience that I am willing to stay on the project. I will post an official message saying as much in a moment. --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:49 AM Subject: Re: speakup modified slackware ISO's may be removed > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 >> >> > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBmNASWSjv55S0LfERAnv7AKDq5vtTq66Xhc84d6jxakCsUNRb/wCfSQwY > SVyEzGPscHi1nJk56Y89MOw= > =vcW/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
