On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Stoppard wrote: > ... i would probably like to try mandrake with > sighted assistance for install, Smarter to go with a more mainstream distro, with a financially stable company behind it, such as Red Hat (Fedora now) or a Debian variant. Be sure you get a current version of whatever you install. Download all the updates for it as soon as you are done with the initial install, and consider using one of the sites that use apt-get (in the case of RedHat/Fedora) for updates, to make this and other add-ons easy (apt-get originated with Debian). > and then try and use GNU Capernicus. Why (assuming you are really referring to Gnopernicus)? Newbies are setting themselves up for frustration if they dabble in development stuff. Better to wait for a stable version -- good enough that the larger distributors conveniently package it for you on the standard install media; and in this case, you wouldn't care till plenty of application packages work well with it. Leave the bleeding edge stuff for experienced users for now (and many of us don't care much yet either): you won't have to wait long, as open source stuff matures quickly. > Unfortunatly i don't have much hard drive space, > only about two point five to three gigabites A text only install would fit fine in that space, with room left over. > Part of the reason i want to try Linux is > because i am becomeing slightly disoluioned with > the price that it will cost me to use windows > and screen reader software, which i can not > afford. Outstanding text mode functionality is a better reason (no one ever learns to use all the text stuff that is available fully -- not that any one person needs to). And freedom (from lockin, to copy, change, etc), is also more important than price, though price is certainly an important advantage. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list