Hi, Michael: Before you buy a boxed set of Red Hat, you might want to take some time to discover what it takes to get Red Hat installed and working for a blind user. I humbly submit a document I coauthored may assist. You can find it at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html This HOWTO does not cover absolutely every means of accessibly obtaining and installing a Red Hat distribution because it is focused on the Speakup screen reader, but it should help you--and you may decide Speakup would be helpful. This document will be phased out soon inasmuch as its contents are now being merged into a more generalized HOWTO for Speakup. On Sat, 11 May 2002, Michael Weaver wrote: > Hi! > I am thinking of having a Linux distribution on my PC. I live in the UK and > I am totally Blind. > One distribution I was thinking of purchasing is Redhat. > However, The nearest distribution for redhat seems to be somewhere in Leeds > but for some reason there doesn't seem to be a link to purchasing the > product from that store. > At least two people I know say Redhat is fairly well documented for someone > who is New to Linux and one of my support workers at Dewsbury College uses > Mandrake so as he knows more about Linux than me, this distribution is also > another possibility. > Could anyone please give me any advice? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org