Good point. Should it still have X and KDE, or perhaps should we go ultra-minimal and just have the console? I've started modifying things, I just made packages for portaudio and espeak, installed them into the initrd space along with alsa, installed espeakup, and modified the /etc/rc.d/rc.S script to start alsa and espeakup. I also modified the isolinux.cfg to load the speakup kernel by default with the speakup.synth=soft parameter, so hopefully everything will just start automagically. We'll see about this. I'll keep hacking away, and may create a site so as not to clutter the list. I have a good feeling about this project. -- Austin Seraphin - http://sunbeem.net SunbEEm Solutions - Every Thing has a Solution. SunbEEm has two E's.