From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C2E3F88A for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 13:54:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4BHs6C02140 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Sat, 11 May 2002 13:54:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g4BHs6l02136 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 13:54:06 -0400 Received: from toccata.rednote.net (1Cust149.tnt1.honolulu.hi.da.uu.net [63.28.92.149]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g4BHmHM18700 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 13:48:17 -0400 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4BHrOo02963 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 13:53:31 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 07:53:23 -1000 (HST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: REDHAT DISTRIBUTION IN THE UK In-Reply-To: <000b01c1f90f$7a9fc040$b5997ad5@oemcomputer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Michael: Before you buy a boxed set of Red Hat, you might want to take some time to discover what it takes to get Red Hat installed and working for a blind user. I humbly submit a document I coauthored may assist. You can find it at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html This HOWTO does not cover absolutely every means of accessibly obtaining and installing a Red Hat distribution because it is focused on the Speakup screen reader, but it should help you--and you may decide Speakup would be helpful. This document will be phased out soon inasmuch as its contents are now being merged into a more generalized HOWTO for Speakup. On Sat, 11 May 2002, Michael Weaver wrote: > Hi! > I am thinking of having a Linux distribution on my PC. I live in the UK and > I am totally Blind. > One distribution I was thinking of purchasing is Redhat. > However, The nearest distribution for redhat seems to be somewhere in Leeds > but for some reason there doesn't seem to be a link to purchasing the > product from that store. > At least two people I know say Redhat is fairly well documented for someone > who is New to Linux and one of my support workers at Dewsbury College uses > Mandrake so as he knows more about Linux than me, this distribution is also > another possibility. > Could anyone please give me any advice? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org