From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6C21F1EF69C; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:40:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from server1.shellworld.net (shellworld.net [69.60.117.94]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A251EF699 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:40:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id AC29B22956; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:40:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D4C228B7 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:40:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: re: installing slackware on a very fast machine Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 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: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:40:53 -0000 I can try installing slackware on a couple old laptops. My reason for being interested to put it on the amd at all is because I have an 80GB sata hard drive and figured slackware would be ideal for that drive. I can I think put archlinux on the 80GB drive too, but wanted to install slackware since I've used slackware for a long time. My location changed from Southern Maryland to Pennsylvania and in that moving process some of my hard drives took some damage. One of them died shrotly after arriving and it was 18 months out of warranty. So slackware is now no longer usable for tower computers if you're using speakup. I read an article on the web about installing emacspeak as a turnkey system and tried it with no good results. Slackware doesn't beep when the boot prompt comes up by default and my monitors all got donated to a charity as a result of the move. Slackware of course has no system with a working espeak either. If I get a monitor for this computer, I can get some help with timing between computer startup and when the boot prompt hits the screen but that hasn't happened yet. jude