Frankly, I think Slackware is the best answer. As many other people pointed out, it has support "out of the box" for accessibility software (Speakup) and is a very simple to install, clean distribution. The philosophy of Slackware is actually to provide something that just works, and to stay as close to the traditional UNIX system as possible. This provides a very "lean" and stable system. Hardware support is better under Red Hat than under Slackware, though, but after testing many distributions (Debian, Red Hat, Caldera, etc) I always come back to Slackware because it is dependable and very, very stable. Also, it is -- and this may seem strange to some -- sometimes easier to install new software on Slackware, because the RPM system used by Red Hat can be very confusing and hopelessly complicated when dependencies are not resolved correctly. Plus, once you are an expert on Slackware, you can probably use your knowledge on every other distribution... <grin> Hope this helps! -- Gil Andre ___ Technical writer ___ Arkeia Corporation email: gandre@arkeia.com | web: http://www.arkeia.com _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list