On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: > ... do recommend more to use a Debian instead, since > that distro is more commandline minded so more > "blindfriendly" in my opinion. There is, in fact, very little difference in the major distributions where the command line is concerned. The command line and shell utilities are essential to the operation of all Unix like systems, including all linux distros, so they will always be essentially the same in that regard. The exception to the above might be some distribution specific system administration front ends, such as the text based "yast" menu system that comes with the SuSE distro (does Debian have something similar)? The thing to keep in mind here, is that all system configuration is actually done by text based configuration files (mostly in /etc), and the front ends just modify these. In the years I have been on this list, I cannot remember a single discussion about building a more blind friendly front end for these, so I assume that most present users prefer editing these directly (usually faster anyway, once you know how). Many of these config files are well commented anyway, so that they are internally documented. And there exist standard command line front ends to many more complex functions, like "chkconfig", "useradd" and "usermod", also common to all distros. The most important difference between distros that I can think of is the software package management and installation utilities, but they all have these, too, adapted to the package format in use for that distro -- but there are projects underway to build tools that handle all these somewhat similarly, too. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html