Re: Best distro

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples@aim.com>]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:15 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:57:10AM -0700, Foreign White Devil wrote:
> >     If Ubuntu doesn't have SpeakUP, then I was mislead.  Someone in
> > the cvale mailing list said Ubuntu had speakup support back in version
> > 7, and they're, like, at version 9 now?  My bad.  I don't follow Ubuntu,
> > but I also could swear I'd seen Ubuntu talked about in this list, and
> > that it had SpeakUP support...or maybe it was GRML?  Was considering
> > grabbing their kernel and stuffing it into Debian just because it was a
> > deb package.  Sorry if I'm wrong...
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> Ubuntu did indeed have speakup support in 7.x, I think it was 7.0, but
> I could be wrong. They dropped it however, along with other distros
> when linux 2.6.22 came out, and because they claimed nobody was
> willing to help them with it, and they had some sort of problems with
> it, though I don't remember what those were. All the grizzly details
> are in the speakup list archives though, for anybody who wants to know
> more.

That's another thing I like about slackware, its had speakup on the main
distro CDs since (I think) 7.x (the actual version it was introduced no
longer seems to be on the slackware website), for every release since
speakup was added to slackware, even through this change over to speakup
in git.
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> Greg
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