From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out008pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.108] helo=out008.verizon.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQwVE-0005DZ-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:26:48 -0500 Received: from champion.verizon.net ([141.149.14.17]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20031201222645.CCZW19191.out008.verizon.net@champion.verizon.net> for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:26:45 -0600 Received: from champion.verizon.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by champion.verizon.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB1MQi6S011151 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:26:44 -0500 Received: from localhost (chuckh@localhost) by champion.verizon.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) with ESMTP id hB1MQhar011148 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:26:44 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: champion.verizon.net: chuckh owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:26:43 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Hallenbeck Sender: chuckh@champion.verizon.net To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <009901c3b859$68a72350$0301a8c0@D> Message-ID: References: <20031201221230.GA274@chris> <009901c3b859$68a72350$0301a8c0@D> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [141.149.14.17] at Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:26:44 -0600 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 22:26:48 -0000 I suggest you would be better off changing advisors instead of changing distros. And that is from a Slackware enthusiast, too. On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, 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 > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (62% of Full) In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates.