Hi there. Yes Red Hat is a pretty good distribution and if you have people that can help you along with it that's allways a plus. If you don't allways have someone who can see to help you with your computer depending on what synthesizer you have if any you could try out speakup. We have install cds made up with speakup patched in so that you could install the entire system yourself. If you only have a sound card though your only option left would be emacspeak which most of the users of this list use because its the only screen reading system that supports software speech. Haven't dived in to emacspeak myself but I will pretty soon since I'm wanting to use the laptop with out allways having to drag the synth out to use it on the road. HTH. Tommy On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Marijan Janev wrote: > Hi list, > It's my first subscription to the list so I am new member and absolute beginner in Linux. > I am blind man who live in Skopje, the capital city of Republic of Macedonia, where until now no blind computer user have used Linux at all. I use Windows and JAWS for Win 3.5 but I'd like to give it a try Linux to experience its capabilities and advantages regarding Windows. > I have a few questions: > > 1. Which version of Linux is the best for blind computer user? Several sighted friends of mine told me that Redhead is very good. > 2. Which program like screen reader in Windows is the best; I know that there are Emacspeak and Speakup but I don't anything about them. > 3. Which of these two programs has a driver for Alva Satellite 544? > > Thanks a lot in advance for your effort to help me! > Thank you for your patience and forgive me for my complete ignorance! > Sincerely, > Marijan > >