What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?

What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?

[Charlie Dorff]

Hi...
I was wondering what the difference is between Speakup and Zipspeak. After Zipspeak is downloaded does it behave similar to Speakup? Thanks.
Charlie

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Re: What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?

[Glenn Ervin]

Is ZipSpeak still being kept updated?
I figured it was not, and too old to use current packages.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?


Zipspeak is speakup. It's a slackware based small distro
that will work on a DOS partition using the UMSDOS 
filesystem. It is a minimal slackware system same as the
normal slackware just different type of file system, with
speakup kernel precompiled.

  -- Doug

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Re: What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?

[Doug Sutherland]

Zipspeak is speakup. It's a slackware based small distro
that will work on a DOS partition using the UMSDOS 
filesystem. It is a minimal slackware system same as the
normal slackware just different type of file system, with
speakup kernel precompiled.

  -- Doug

Re: What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?

[Alex Snow]

Speakup is the screenreader for the linux console.  Zipspeak is a 
linux distribution (actually a modified version of zipslack, which is 
constructed from slackware) that includes speakup.  I wouldn't 
recommend zipspeak anymore...it's about 5 years out of date and will 
only work on a fat32 filesystem.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:00:21PM 
-0800, Charlie Dorff wrote:
> Hi...
> I was wondering what the difference is between Speakup and Zipspeak. After Zipspeak is downloaded does it behave similar to Speakup? Thanks.
> Charlie
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Re: What is the difference between Speakup and Zipspeak?

[Alex Snow]

and if you want to use zipspeak, I would recommend downloading 
zipslack from the latest slackware release that contained it (9.1?) 
and just replacing the kernel with a speakup one from the same 
slackware version.  I seem to remember zipspeak having some issues 
(cr/lf line endings in the startup scripts comes to mind) so doing 
this is probably your best bet.
On 
Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:09:55PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote:
> Zipspeak is speakup. It's a slackware based small distro
> that will work on a DOS partition using the UMSDOS 
> filesystem. It is a minimal slackware system same as the
> normal slackware just different type of file system, with
> speakup kernel precompiled.
> 
>   -- Doug
> 
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