From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from apollo.wurldlink.com ([216.235.52.167] helo=mail.wurldlink.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ym5U-0004vY-00 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:07:32 -0500 Received: (qmail 90567 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 05:02:49 -0000 Received: from dt065n2c.san.rr.com (HELO atlantis) (24.30.156.44) by mail.wurldlink.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 05:02:49 -0000 Message-ID: <004a01c2f4e7$ea9fa930$1e00a8c0@atlantis> From: "Juan Hernandez" To: References: <73388857A695D31197EF00508B08F2980A00EEAB@ntmsg0131.corpmail.telstra.com.au> Subject: Re: Which linux distro?? Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:07:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I use slackware 9.0, I love it... I am not normally a linux person, because I've worked with bsd platforms for years spisificly freebsd, I wish speakup would be ported to freebsd someday... but slackware is the one I found easest to install. I like the hardware support, and it doesn't take much room up like rh does. Juan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mirabella, Mathew J" To: "speakup list" ; "emacspeak list" Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:06 PM Subject: Which linux distro?? ok folks. I need to pose a question to you all that I have already asked before, and the responses some time ago suggested that redhat may be the best way to go... things may have changed since folks on the speakup list are talking about the lack of built in speakup support with new versions of redhat. So. the question is... for a blind person, new to linux wanting to have a speech based system with emacspeak and speakup and wanting to start taking advantage of newer stuff with gnome etc. and also wanting good support of new hardware... which linux distro would people recommend. I am hearing that slackware or debian or redhat are the three that most people seem to use, with redhat looking a bit shakey lately. slackware 9 seems to have the newest gnome stuff...??? or maybe people think that redhat 7.3 with a speakup kernel is the best way to go? please give me your thoughts. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup