On 28.09.2010 01:31, Adam Myrow wrote: > I agree fully. Apparently, I'm not alone in this, either. There is a > version of Gnome for Slackware Linux called GSB. The previous two > versions included Pulseaudio. I always had to find some way to disable > it in order to use both Espeak and have sounds. The current version > ditched Pulseaudio completely, and includes Espeak as one of its > packages. I wouldn't even have messed with Gnome in Slackware 13.1 if > they hadn't decided to do this. I hope others will soon follow this > trend. If everybody drops Pulseaudio, either the developer will get the > message, or it will be abandoned. Interesting! Though I'm currently not interested in GNOME. Does Slackware include Speakup? Is it possible to install Slackware with software speech?