I'm sorry if I confused you about which distribution to use. The way I see it is use the best tool available at the moment and stick with it for a while. Redhat was my main environment for years since their release 4.0 I believe. Redhat was a great improvement from Slackware used for my first Linux install in 1994. I was hoping that Redhat will improve the rpm process but they never made it beyound minor changes. There was talk going around about the merger between Debian and Redhat packaging systems but that never happened. As I mentioned earlier I found Debian much easier to install recently and decided to use it more often than before. One of the reasons I tried Debian again was bad experience with Redhat 7.0 and 7.1. In order to get critical things working I ended up with installing too many things when using Redhat while debian was much leaner. I don't want to go on record to say one distribution is better than the other. It's not hard to find problems with all of them. I described my experience and reasons I chose one over the other. The best thing to do is to install different distributions and try them out for a while then decide which one to adopt. That's how we use different products, we like different things. Good luck, Rafael On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:02:25PM -0400, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > Hi All: > > I am new to linux and am getting ready to have Red Hat linux 7.2 > installed. > > this message raises a big question now. should I be installing debian > Linux and not red Hat Linux 7.2? I use a braille display and would be > using brltty to access linux. > > My concern is whether Red Hat Linux is the better of the two choices from > the accessibility point of view. I'd appreciate feedback on this issue. > > thanks, > Barb > > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > Rafael, > > You seem to be the answer guy today. In your reply to my questions about > > changing to ext3 you said that Debian had much better packaging than > > Redhat. I have Redhat 7.1, with a bit of 7.2. How would I change to Debian > > with a minimum of pain? > > Thanks. > > John > > > > > > -- > > Computers to Help People, Inc. > > http://www.chpi.org > > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703