Various Questions

Various Questions

[Nick G]

Hi all.
    Now that Gentoo is no longer a linux distribution that can be installed 
with speakup, I want to know what is left that can do this?  And at what 
date will 2.6.22 become Gentoo's main line kernel?  Also, is there a shot at 
someone forking a Gentoo live CD and kernel set to include speakup when the 
2.6.22 bug is fixed?  I'd do it myself, but I'm not a programmer.

I have to reinstall linux because I'm changing machines soon.  Gentoo was my 
favorite distribution ever since I began using it.  In a lot of cases, 
installing programs just...works...And I can't say that for Debian, Fedora, 
or any other distribution (don't get me started.)  So, I hope some of these 
questions can be answered.
Thanks,
Nick

Long Island, New york

Email or MSN/windows messenger: nick@HKCRadio.comm
AIM: hkcradio
skype: nick6489
Web page: www.hkcradio.com 

Re: Various Questions

[Deedra Waters]

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Nick G wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:45:53 -0400
> From: Nick G <nick@hkcradio.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Various Questions
>
> Hi all.
>     Now that Gentoo is no longer a linux distribution that can be installed
> with speakup, I want to know what is left that can do this?  And at what
> date will 2.6.22 become Gentoo's main line kernel?  Also, is there a shot at
> someone forking a Gentoo live CD and kernel set to include speakup when the
> 2.6.22 bug is fixed?  I'd do it myself, but I'm not a programmer.

You can still install gentoo you just need to use one of the previous
livecds such as2007.1 or even one of the earlier ones such as 2006.1.
All a new release with gentoo means is a new set of livecds and more
current stages. Long as you've got internet access you can still
download a current stage.

Also nothing says that gentoo won't pick up the  fixed speakup patch and
put it into 2.6.22 once it's fixed.

I think the main reason it got dropped is because 1, gentoo wants to
keep moving forward, this means a more current kernel and it can't do
that with patches that break the kernel.
>
> I have to reinstall linux because I'm changing machines soon.  Gentoo was my
> favorite distribution ever since I began using it.  In a lot of cases,
> installing programs just...works...And I can't say that for Debian, Fedora,
> or any other distribution (don't get me started.)  So, I hope some of these
> questions can be answered.
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> Long Island, New york
>
> Email or MSN/windows messenger: nick@HKCRadio.comm
> AIM: hkcradio
> skype: nick6489
> Web page: www.hkcradio.com
>
>
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Deedra Waters - Gentoo accessibility and amd64 -
dmwaters@gentoo.org
Gentoo linux: http://www.gentoo.org

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