From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pfui.uark.edu([130.184.144.59]) (2230 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:52:17 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=ccn) by pfui.uark.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13gWEk-00049Y-00 for ; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:52:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:52:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Nestrud Reply-To: ccn@uark.edu To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: speakup on a sparc In-Reply-To: <000c01c02d4a$e2c401a0$beeef79b@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: I believe that you can get an educational license for Solaris source code. Still, as has been said, their are enough differences that porting Speakup to Solaris would be a huge undertaking. It would also probably, at least partially, split the two source trees, linux and solaris. Chris On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote: > For additional comments please refer to Kerry's excellent message. It would be > really neat if we could port Speakup to Sollaris. I doubt that SUN would be > interested, well, perhaps. How about if we try to send a note to Sollaris > developers. Perhaps they will write their own "Speakup"! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Buddy Brannan" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:33 AM > Subject: Re: speakup on a sparc > > > | Well, Kirk can address this better, but I don't see any reason why you > | can't run Linux on a Sparc *if* you're running Linux for a Sparc processor. > | Since Speakup is of course specifically a patch into the Linux kernel, I > | doube it can be patched into a Solaris kernel. > | > | -- > | Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV > | Email: davros@ycardz.com > | Voice mail: 877-791-5298 > | All opinions are all mine! > | > | _______________________________________________ > | Speakup mailing list > | Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > | http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >