From: "Thomas Ward" <tward@bright.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: which linux to go for
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:49:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <024101c1524a$d4eacde0$36128fd1@j8i3x3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011011192206.021eadb0@mail>
Hi, well, I would recommend strongly going with Slackware 8. Slackware 8 has
been the distribution I have felt most happiest with.
Slackware uses the tgz package system, comes with the stable 2.95.3 gcc
compilers, native Speakup support for installation and post-installation,
choice of 2.4.5 or 2.2.19 kernel, and a host of speech friendly apps.
Some of my favorite apps are hangman game, mpg123, Workbone, sox, Emacs,
lynx, pine, sc, and others.
I've also used Red Hat versions 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1 but my interest
has faded. Red Hat 7.1 uses rpm package maniger which can at times be
troublesome, uses the gcc 2.96 compilers which I don't like, comes with the
2.4.2 kernel and there is an update for 2.4.3.12kernel, and many of the same
apps as Slackware. However, it doesn't come with some apps like hangman,
mpg123, or Workbone.
The standard release of Red Hat doesn't have native Speakup support, but I
believe Bill has a modified release that does.
However, Red Hat has some nice config utilities that Slackware lacks such
as linuxconf, sndconfig, and a couple of others.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Keogh" <dwkeogh@optushome.com.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:24 AM
Subject: which linux to go for
> Ok guys you've all probably been asked this hundreds of times before but
> here goes. I know there's 3 main linux distributions out there but which
> one's the best? Maybe that's too open a question. What's the main
> differences between the 3 might be more what I'm after?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Danny Keogh
> ICQ: 72503517
> mailto:dwkeogh@optushome.com.au
>
>
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Danny Keogh
` Thomas Ward [this message]
` Buddy Brannan
` Shaun Oliver
` Kirk Wood
` Kirk Wood
` Tony Baechler
` watch for heresay Kirk Wood
` Shaun Oliver
` Thomas Ward
` Rodney Clowdus
` Raul A. Gallegos
` Shaun Oliver
` Tony Baechler
` Frank Carmickle
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