Running Linux under windows?

[Tony Baechler]

Well, considering the age of the 2.2 kernel and the many security 
problems that have been fixed, I wouldn't install zipspeak again, but it 
might work.  I know it requires umsdos which is apparently no longer 
supported in the kernel and it caused at least one drive to crash due to 
file corruption, but take your chances.  The version of Speakup is very 
old also.  I don't think it comes with development tools because of the 
small size.  I think it requires a FAT filesystem and probably wouldn't 
run under NTFS or XP.  For me, it required booting into plain DOS before 
it would start.  I think XP would block it because the kernel takes over 
the running OS.  If you really want to run Linux under Windows, why not 
just download and burn a live CD like grml?  That gives you all the 
development tools and a much newer and nicer Speakup environment.  It 
also supports software speech which zipspeak didn't.  An announcement 
was posted on the Speakup list that zipspeak would no longer be 
maintained because of the old kernel.  I thought about trying my luck 
but I honestly don't see any point.  If you're in the US, I have an old 
grml CD I could send you free matter, but you're better to burn your own.

Hart Larry wrote:
> Well, thanks so far for your replies-and-comments.  Back many years 
> ago when I installed zipspeak, I was able to just alt-tab in windows.  
> At the time I did not have alot of linux support, so did not know what 
> I would have needed for speech?  Some times as I alt-tabbed Jaws would 
> say "apache"  So would zipspeak be way too old to install on a more 
> modern windows machine?  Thanks in advance
> Hart
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