Many of the current talking installations are built around gnome which is great if one has a system capable of supporting it, but there are a number of useful systems around that don't quite have enough resources to run or run properly under gnome. Several years ago, there was oralux which would run on just about anything, but it was built around obsolete designs and fell by the wayside. Then, a few years ago, there was the Version 2 edition of Vinux which is another one of those stout command-line systems that will run on just about anything within reason but it is no longer supported. The current versions of Vinux plus the ubuntu Live CD seem to have some kind of issue with pulseaudio and will absolutely not make a sound on anything I have which includes a very nice Pentium4 system I acquired with a 3-GHZ processor and slightly over a gigabyte of RAM, in other words, no good reason for it not to work. By the way, the old standby which is the Vinux2 disk from 2009 talked beautifully on that system, but again, one can not upgrade it. So, is there a procedure to take a standard command-line installation of Linux such as Debian Squeeze and add speakup to it? The choice these days is between old installations that work but can't be kept current and the latest and greatest that seems to be very picky about what it will run on. Thanks for your thoughts. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
