From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net ([207.108.112.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16UeE4-0008Vi-00 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:35:20 -0500 Received: (qmail 28394 invoked by uid 50); 27 Jan 2002 01:35:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 28382 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jan 2002 01:35:00 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poola158.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (63.227.85.158) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 01:35:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Speakup and Mandrake Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:37:10 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012618371000.11459@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 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: it's other main selling point: it has a hardware detection routine that basically works. > One thing I would love to know: why is there much interest in Mandrake? I > just don't get it. Why bother with a gui if you can't access it? And in > reading it seems that is the big selling point of the distro: it is > optimized for the gui.