uh, we can't wait for it to be "made accessible." It works ok currently, and I'm running a speakup kernel--though I haven't figured out why as of yet, I just use ssh until I get softsynth set up. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler at tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Foreign White Devil" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:42 AM Subject: Re: Best distro > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> someone has some research to do: >> http://people.debian.org/~shane > > Yeah, I have Shane's netinst CD. It's not the defacto distro, > and half the time you try running tasksel in the installation, it tries > to remove the kernel, leaving you with a kernelless system. I also run > 'apt-cache search speakup' in a cron job each night, get mailed the > results, and so far I see nothing but the Shane kernel mentioned so far. > According to the guys at freenode.net, Lenny will only have the 2.6.24 > kernel, which will likely mean another search for a modified, > non-standard install disk. I won't even go into how old their gnome-orca > package is. Don't get me wrong. I'm running Debian and love it for > other reasons. It still does little to support my needs as yet, so I > can't truthfully recommend it to blind novices until that support > exists in the stock distro. Linux is difficult enough without adding > blindness and a lack of real support on top of that. If Lenny is > released with SspeakUP, then I'll recommend it ahead of every other > distro out there. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3263 (20080711) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
