From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gscamnlh01.wr.usgs.gov ([130.118.4.115]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQxkz-0006a8-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:47:10 -0500 Received: from DAIMLER ([130.118.172.132]) by gscamnlh01.wr.usgs.gov (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.12HF345) with SMTP id 2003120115463358:60668 ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:46:33 -0800 Message-ID: <001f01c3b865$5a632300$84ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov> From: "Sean McMahon" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20031201221230.GA274@chris> <009901c3b859$68a72350$0301a8c0@D><20031201231834.GB11515@gmx.net> <004101c3b861$d13cd830$0301a8c0@D> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:46:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on gscamnlh01/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.12HF345 | August 14, 2003) at 12/01/2003 03:46:33 PM, Serialize by Router on gscamnlh01/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.12HF345 | August 14, 2003) at 12/01/2003 03:47:06 PM, Serialize complete at 12/01/2003 03:47:06 PM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean McMahon , "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: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:47:10 -0000 Um aren't all the distros free? If you need disks you can get the disk immages of the net I'm pretty sure. Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darragh" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels? > Hmm, not a bad idea, I've just looked at the price, is there a reason that > its cheaper than most of the other distributions? Is that a really horrible > question? I notice that it has emacs and gnopernicus as well. > > Are these preeconfigured like in Fedora? > > I'd like to make up my mind by getting as many views as possible along with > reading as much about the distributions as possible. > > Thanks > > > Darragh > > P.S, one more thing. I don't think Slackware has RPM or Yum support does > it? I know of like them two apps. Can they be installed separately? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Why do we spend more time troubleshooting our systems than actually > using them? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Snow" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:18 PM > Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels? > > > > use slackware. it's reaaaaaaly stable. > > and comes with a speakup modified kernel in the stock distribution. > > On > > Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:21:00PM -0000, Darragh wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Ok, I've installed and messed around with Fedora but I'm sick of people, > a > > > certain person in this country telling me that its not stable, there are > > > still bugs, its still an alfa bla bla bla. > > > > > > My question: > > > I'm being advised to go for another distribution. Red hat 9 was > suggested. > > > If I do indeed go for another distribution what would you suggest? I > will > > > mainly use speakup and if I can ever get it to work, emacspeak however, > I'd > > > like to mess around with gnome and gnopernicus. > > > > > > I've just spent the last three hours trying to figure out why Winblows > xp > > > stopped recognising the NTFS partition on this disk when I should have > being > > > working on stuff for deadlines due tomorrow. > > > > > > I'd really appreciate any views you have about any distribution of Linux > > > that you've used successfully with speakup. > > > The distros that were suggested are: > > > mandrake, > > > slackware, > > > red hat > > > suSE > > > and > > > Free BSD. > > > > > > please please let me know. > > > > > > > > > Darragh > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > > back. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup