From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from info8.gawab.com (mailhost3.gawab.com [66.220.20.3]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 14F1D109E8 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:07:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 6264 invoked by uid 1004); 15 Nov 2008 18:09:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aakhater) (aakhater@gawab.com@41.196.90.50) by gawab.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2008 18:09:16 -0000 X-Trusted: Whitelisted Message-ID: <000901c9474d$39a665b0$0201a8c0@aakhater> From: "Ahmed Khater" To: Subject: Introducint myself to list members. Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:08:45 +0200 Organization: Helwan University MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ahmed Khater , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:07:29 -0000 Hello listers, My name is Ahmed Khater. I am an Egyptian blind scholar and a university of English language, linguistics and translation. I am claimed to be a fairly good computer user of Windows / jaws and many other windows-based applications. However, After I registered for my ph.d in computational linguistics with specific reference to Arabic, I discovered that I need to learn and use Linux as many computational linguists use this platform to create, modify and control language databases of words, morphemes, phonemes and much more. So, I decided to enter this new world and learn Linux. My first question, where can I download the full package of Linux. I know that this is a difficult question to answer, since Linux is created to satisfy a multitude of needs and to work on a multiplicity of computer machines with various purposes in mind. But, I need it on my intel-based machine in order to work with language databases. So, I need to download a standard Linux package. Thank you for any suggestion to me on the place where I could download this package and I am sorry to bother you with further questions in my following e-mails while I am learning this new OS. Best Regards Ahmed Khater aakhater@gmail.com It's always hope that gives meaning to life