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From: wlestes@wlestes.uncg.edu
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: basic questions
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:44:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812181544.KAA06353@wlestes.uncg.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.981217130708.16572H-100000@usr07.primenet.com> (message from Lorie McCloud on Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:08:01 -0700 (MST))

hi

> my braille lite is my computer. i use it online with a shell account. i'm
> thinking about getting a pc & i don't want to run windows for reasons i
> probably don't need to go into here. i don't know dos. i do know how to
> use pine, ftp, lynx & irc. if i ran some version of linux, would i be able
> to use real audio & cd-rom & would i be able to do some version of a net
> phone where i could actually talk on chat lines? i think i could get

yes, yes and yes. you might try speak_freely as i've seen it packaged
for linux.

You might have a look at redhat's distribution of gnu/linux. many people
also are quite happy with debian and slackware as well. the
distributions have different strong points--and redhat is often the
easiest for end user applications and maintainance.


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