From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pc-24-151-10-129.newt1.ct.charter.com ([24.151.10.129] helo=h14me.homelinux.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQxIG-0005pz-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:17:29 -0500 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB1NIYhb011525 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:18:34 -0500 Received: (from alex_snow@localhost) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hB1NIYVe011524 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:18:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:18:34 -0500 From: Alex Snow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20031201231834.GB11515@gmx.net> References: <20031201221230.GA274@chris> <009901c3b859$68a72350$0301a8c0@D> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009901c3b859$68a72350$0301a8c0@D> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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 23:17:29 -0000 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.