From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta2.math.wisc.edu (mta2.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.82]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E72C10AD2 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:17:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mta2.math.wisc.edu Received: from mta2.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta2.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pYP2FamGsGLC for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta2.math.wisc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta2.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41E6380088 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ulam.math.wisc.edu (ulam.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.245]) by mta2.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vv507j (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ulam.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA42A2BDA5 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <044701c8e5c4$c8562a60$4ba65c90@vv507j> From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20080714010540.GA19956@clearwire.net><000b01c8e54f$9fe98ec0$4200a8c0@tdsportable> <20080714012548.GA25329@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Shane's kernels (was: Best distro) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0500 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 V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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, 14 Jul 2008 15:17:52 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: Re: Best distro > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >>> Debian still doesn't support SpeakUP, >> someone has some research to do: >> http://people.debian.org/~shane > > I think he meant official support for speakup, in which case he's > right. Shane's iso isn't the stock debian iso which you can download > as an official debian iso, (I.E. an iso officially produced, and > supported by the debian project). Last time I checked, Shane's space on the debian site had 2.6.18-4 kernels. A 2.6.18 kernel is kind of old but the main problem is the "4" right at the end of the kernel version number. That means it has the root exploit that was fixed with the 2.6.18-6 kernels. Somebody on this list took it upon himself to post speakup enabled versions of the -6 kernels. I don't remember who that was. But it's not an ideal solution because the person was not a debian maintainer. I wouldn't be comfortable pointing someone to a web site that wasn't on the debian server. I mean, I point people to my own web site for the debian speechd-up package but I know me. I wouldn't blame anyone if other people didn't trust my speechd-up package. So does anybody know if Shane is going to continue to maintain his debian web space? If not, it's rather a large loss.