[raspberry-vi] Re: Happy Birthday Raspberry VI
- From: Rill <starbasecafe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:43:32 -0600
One of my 2014 resolutions is to again push the boundaries of my emacs
knowledge and my use of the pi. My blog needs a great deal of love and
my hoped-for booklet on my experience of using the pi needs to be done.
How many items is that?
Rill
On 12/30/2013 6:40 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
> Hello Rill,
>
> The year has gone by very fast. I think our greatest victory to date
> has been Emacspeak, and thanks to Jason for first getting that to run on
> Arch Linux.
>
> I say that Emacspeak is the greatest victory for us because it is so
> much more than just a screen-reader. And your use of it demonstrates
> that admirably.
>
> In 2014 we can hopefully get audio latency issues fixed, perhaps to such
> a degree that text-to-speech can work on other Linux distributions and
> we can take kernel and firmware updates off the Arch Linux black-list
> and create a totally up to date version.
>
> Mike
>
> On 31/12/2013 00:33, Rill wrote:
>> Only a year and so much has been accomplished!
>> Rill
>> On 12/30/2013 6:30 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> It was a year ago today (31st December) that I created this list while I
>>> waited for my first Raspberry Pi to drop through the letter box.
>>>
>>> The list was created because while I was waiting to get my mits on the
>>> little board I could not find answers to some of the questions I had
>>> which were relevant to me as a blind user. Questions like 'is there an
>>> SSH server running out-of-the-box' and 'what are all these sockets and
>>> spikey pins'.
>>>
>>> A year on my knowledge of Linux has increased by an order of magnitude
>>> and several of us have had some fun trying to get some accessibility
>>> tools running on the Pi.
>>>
>>> We have the Accessible Arch Linux image on the web site. This has the
>>> SpeakUp screen-reader and Emacspeak running on it.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately their continues to be problems with firmware changes and
>>> latency issues meaning we have had to black-list kernel updates, and the
>>> Accessible Arch image will currently not boot on a Pi board with a Hynix
>>> RAM chip.
>>>
>>> But I'm working on fixing that, if I can.
>>>
>>> We have several new joiners since Christmas day so I guess Santa may
>>> have been carrying a few Raspberry Pi boards on his sleigh.
>>>
>>> The list is very quiet. This means either that nobody is doing anything
>>> with their Pi, or they are not sharing what they are doing.
>>>
>>> So come on, what are you all up to?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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