Re: Zipspeak maintanence official discontinuation announcement

["Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>]

I wanted to a while back, but it was not up to date.  I would like to see it 
use software speech, but even if not, it would be good to have.  On one of 
my computers, I can boot to a USB drive, and I have an HP utility that can 
format a USB stick as any of 3 formats, FAT, FAT32, and NTFS.
So I could format the stick FAT32 and run ZipSpeak on it.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: Zipspeak maintanence official discontinuation announcement


Nick G wrote:
>     For those who are knew, early in 2005, I installed myself as the 
> Zipspeak maintainer, then still having access to a windows 98 PC at 
> school.  Zipspeak, a linux distribution you could unzip and run on a 
> machine with Windows 98, was a that time languishing, maintainerless.  My 
> hope, at that time, was to keep Zipspeak a viable option for those who 
> need it.  However, I lost access to that PC, which didn't work for testing 
> zipspeak anyway, and any and all others who could've tested for me can no 
> longer do so.  It is no longer viable for me to release Zipspeaks into the 
> wild, or even to support them, seeing as I don't use them.  Zipspeak's 
> functions have been superceded by other distributions, such as GRML, 
> Ubuntu, etc.  Effective immediately, I no longer willl support or maintain 
> Zipspeak.
>


Hi all,

While I agree with Nick that a live CD is generally much better for new
Linux users, I understand that not all computers can boot live CDs and
some may not even have CD drives.  Therefore, if there is enough demand,
I would take over maintenance.  I still run Win98 here as my primary OS
although I'm gradually switching to Linux and XP.  The loadlin boot
loader for DOS is still supported in the latest Debian unstable and the
"win32-loader" package is designed to install Debian via a Win32
installer.  I haven't used said installer so I know nothing about it.
My point is that if I get enough requests for it, I'll continue to work
on making Zipspeak releases provided there is not a lot of work involved
in getting the kernel to compile.  I strongly recommend against the
umsdos file system and in 99% of cases I would say just to use a live CD
or a multiboot setup, but not all computers can do that.  I'll close
with a question.  Does anyone even use Zipspeak nowadays?
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