Suse.

[Steve Holmes]

This brings up an interesting question for me.  What about FREEBSD? As far
as I know (little), Free BSD is open - wonder how hard it would be to port
Speakup to that environment as well?


On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> SUSE is a distribution of linux, in the same way as debian, slackware,
> redhat and mandrake are.  The issue with SUSE is mainly that, as far as I
> know, no-one's made boot disks for it with speakup compiled in.  Whether
> this is because the SUSE installer is graphical and is thus unusable with
> speakup, or merely that no-one's gotten around to doing it, I do not know.
> 
> Speakup should run under all linux distributions for the PC, providing you
> don't try to run it under Xwindows of course.  AFAIK, speakup should work
> under some other architectures with little or no modification, though this
> is largely untested.  For the moment, speakup can't run under any other
> unix operating systems, as it needs to be compiled into the kernel which
> obviously differs across operating systems.  I don't know how many other
> unix variants have kernels that would lend themselves to being modified
> like this, but I dare say that such porting is a long way down any lists of
> things to do.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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