I heard about the Raspberry Pi probably six months ago (estimating) on the Linux Action Show. If I am able, I definitely want to pick one (or more) up when they are shipped in cases. It is definitely something worth looking into. I told my wife (who doesn't know much about tech) that I was going to buy a Raspberry Pi, and she said, "Why do you want to eat a raspberry pie?" I love getting her with tech things like that. <smile> On 02/21/2012 08:32 AM, John Heim wrote: > Speakup works on the Geode by NSC. That's the chip in my Soekris 4801. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" > <tyler at tysdomain.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:02 PM > Subject: Re: Anyone thought about raspberry pie? > > > I think you are a bit to optomistic. Because speakup works on Debian or > arch doesn't mean that it'll work on arm. It's a different architecture. > Just figured I'd throw that out there. > On 2/20/2012 5:52 PM, Kyle wrote: >> From the website: >> >> What Linux distros will be supported at launch? >> >> Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We >> hope to see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with >> newer releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu >> can?t commit to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able >> to download distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is >> released, and we will also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly >> after release. >> >> So if Arch and Debian are supported, Speakup modules or kernels >> compiled with Speakup should run without issues. Some software speech >> synthesizers may have memory issues, but eSpeak is sure to run, as it >> has an extremely low memory requirement. >> >> On a side note, I really want one of these things , and will likely >> purchase one once the cases are available. Then I can try to get >> Talking Arch running on it. I also wonder how easy it would be to get >> bluetooth running on something like this. It looks like it would pair >> well with a bluetooth keyboard and become a nice little portable >> computer. This looks more and more like a fun little project to work >> on for very little money. And with the right software, it will work >> better than most of those notetaker thingies that still cost 100 >> times as much as this baby, and that some people still buy for some >> reason. Smile. >> ~Kyle >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
