From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IT4Tv-0000Ol-00 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:40:23 -0400 Received: from [24.226.67.97] (port=65311 helo=proficio) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IT4TK-0002jc-My for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:39:47 -0400 Message-ID: <005001c7f016$33ef0e40$ab00a8c0@proficio> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070903234039.GA3970@localhost.localdomain><026501c7f00e$2e552990$4ba65c90@vv507j><02ac01c7f010$67edf720$4ba65c90@vv507j> Subject: Re: speakup doesn't patch into 2.6.22.6 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:40:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: 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: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:40:23 -0000 Linux from scratch is completely compiled from source and isn't really a distribution. It could be made into one, but what results is really quite large in disk space used and it's tedious to maintain. It is definitely interesting and a great experience to build the entire mess from source, but I think it would make more sense to use another distro's baseline to build a new distro. Otherwise, too much time is spent on really basic things before you even get to anything specific to speech or command line tools. I made a linux from scratch distro a couple of years ago that I was putting on several machines but it is too much work to maintain. It will certainly give you much appreciation for the work that goes into slackware, debian, gentoo, ubuntu, etc. There are a few live CD images of linux from scratch around though that may be interesting as a baseline for a speech enabled bootable image. -- Doug