From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from home.andrelouis.com ([87.74.127.1] helo=AndreLouis.COM) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IPTwu-0000HU-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:03:28 -0400 Received: from Spooler by AndreLouis.COM (Mercury/32 v4.01b) ID MO0095AB; 27 Aug 2007 03:03:28 +0100 Received: from spooler by AndreLouis.COM (Mercury/32 v4.01b); 27 Aug 2007 03:02:52 +0100 Received: from Arthur (123.255.55.167) by AndreLouis.COM (Mercury/32 v4.01b) ID MG0095AA; 27 Aug 2007 03:02:50 +0100 Message-ID: <000f01c7e84e$5fdeab70$932914ac@Arthur> From: "Arthur Pirika" To: Subject: Back in the linux world again Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:02:44 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:03:29 -0000 Hi all, I've been in and out of the linux world for a while, and decided to check back in a few months ago with ubuntu 7.04, when it was in late beta. A little disappointing to see gentoo and ubuntu drop speakup, but never mind. Actually, it's all accodemic for me, as i have no hardware, either speech or braille to begin with. I have a question though. I'd like to switch from ubuntu to either slackware or gentoo, as I'd like a little bit more control over what gets installed, and not have to worry about incompatibilities between locally built and pre-packaged stuff. My question is, is it possible to install slackware from another distribution? In theory, I can see this as beeing possible, but not sure what slackware's setup script depends on. My plan was to boot the ubuntu install cd with orca loaded, and then proceed from there. btw, has any progress been made on porting speakup to 2.6.22? thanks, Arthur.