From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.knology.net ([24.214.63.101]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0E9D-0003rU-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:54:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 17640 invoked by uid 0); 26 Aug 2004 06:54:11 -0000 Received: from user-69-1-42-78.knology.net (HELO localhost) (69.1.42.78) by smtp3.knology.net with SMTP; 26 Aug 2004 06:54:11 -0000 Received: from kenny by localhost with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C0E96-0004Ps-IF for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:54:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:54:04 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040826065404.GB16031@blackbox> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i From: Kenny Hitt Subject: Re: ot: gentoo X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:54:12 -0000 I'm currently running Gentoo. I chose it for the same reasons you mention. My network card isn't supported by any accessible Debian installer. It takes a while to install. I spent the afternoon reading the Gentoo handbook with lynx in one console and following it's instructions in another. When the handbook tells you to type a comman and go watch a movie or read a book, they aren't kidding. I installed it on a 1.5G AMD with 512 meg ram. It still takes it a while to upgrade things like Mozilla. I like the fact I could install my DECtalk software and Sun's JDK early in the install. This meant I had DECtalk available for Gnopernicus the first time. Gentoo has an accessibility flag that causes programs built to enable any accessibility features. I still like Debian better, but my Gentoo box works fine as my personal work station. If you want to use a Gentoo kernel source instead of official kernel.org sources, gentoo-dev-sources has speakup already patched in the source. Speechd-up is a Gentoo package, so getting speakup working with software speech wasn't difficult. Hope this helps. Kenny On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Is anybody on this list currently running gentoo? I want to re-install on > my desktop because I no longer really need my DOS partition (well, I still > have a little problem with transfers to and from the braillelite but I > plan to solve that). My preference would probably be to re-install debian, > but having to either use an older installer cd or having to mess with > floppies which don't always seem to work for me don't seem like really > wonderful alternatives. besides this, unless one runs unstable (which is > what I usually do), things aren't current. so gentoo sounds kind of > appealing to me. but I'd like to know: if anybody has either run it > recently or is running it, did you have issues with installation and what > were your impressions of it once you got it installed? I have looked at > some of the archive issues (I think there were some here and in blinux) > with this but would like any current opinions. I know that people's likes > and dislikes re: distributions are often a fairly subjective matter, so > not trying to start a dist war, but just am trying to decide whether I > want to try this. A while back I tried fedora on my laptop and really > didn't find it to be what i wanted, but that doesn't mean I'm never going > to try anything different again. > Thanks. > > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup