Nothing wrong at all Karen. I am doing what I am doing for how shall I put this experimental purposes only. If you don't test these things you don't know. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 1 May 2024, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Jude, > I have an odd question? > Is there something wrong with your current preferred Linux distribution? > A problem that you feel this one can provide better? > Karen > > > > On Wed, 1 May 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Burning gentoo onto a flash drive probably burns the image with all > > permissions intact. > > If those permissions are read-only and if the installer does not change > > any of those permissions it will be impossible to edit anything and have > > the edits saved. > > This may explain why espeakup cannot be started after booting the > > installer. If that is the case, the accessibility project in order to > > promote screen reader accessibility use in gentoo will need to do a little > > more writing which will expand the espeakup start up process after boot. > > If I could run slint and actually reach into gentoo on a hard drive in its > > own mount point I might be able to inspect file permissions for files in > > gentoo and if I had chroot access into gentoo change the necessary file > > permissions so once edits got done those edits would stick. > > Many years ago a process for doing this was put up on the speakup mailing > > list and I didn't need it at the time so deleted it on this end. I > > remember it involved using loop in some way. > > > > > > -- > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > > Please use in that order." > > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > > >
