From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [130.184.139.107] (helo=pfui.uark.edu ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15Bf6u-0003Qx-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:09:12 -0400 Received: from ccn by pfui.uark.edu with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15Bf81-0001IJ-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:10:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:10:21 -0500 From: Chris Nestrud To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: FAQ gally2: System Requirements Message-ID: <20010617111021.A4957@uark.edu> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 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: You could mention that anything which runs Windows haf-way decently should work well with linux. This is just meant to assure new users that, if they're using their computer for Windows tasks, it's likely to work well with linux. Chris On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:04:03PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > I don't think it's useful to leave the minimum system requirement as it > is. While it is academically true that one can run linux with speakup on a > 386 or 486 system, doing so is a little bit more dificult than our blithe > comments suggest. It seems to me that most people here on out will use > some of the canned installation distributions, Debian, Slack, Redhat, > where speakup is already compiled in. How well do these support > installations on older chips with only a few hundred megabytes of hard > disk space? If they do that well--never mind this post. But, if not, let's > not steer people wrong. > > > Suggestion: > > Installation on older computers is not advised for people who've never > installed linux before. It's just harder, much harder, to get it > working. For > best results, especially if you want to listen to Real Audio and mp3s, > you should use a Pentium system with a hard disk that has several > gigabytes of space. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup