For those that installed gentoo is it still installed and how well is it working for you? I read an article in newsforge.com and this individual did not use a speakup-enabled version of gentoo since he's sighted and though he had it installed for awhile decided gentoo wasn't for him. The amount of hacking he needed to do with it cut too deeply into his productive time. Has the accessible version of gentoo that had speakup in it been removed from the web? From what research I've been able to do the links to it all now appear to be dead.
