Mostly good advice, Lee. But, is there some reason anyone has to install with sighted assistance instead of with Speakup's assistance? I should think that, if one wants speech as the final result, one would also want speech during the install. Now, what am I missing here?? Lee Maschmeyer writes: > Hi Jaffar, > > I don't know anything about which flavor of machine yours is, but I wonder > if you really want to go with Red Hat 9. Unless things have changed since > the last time I was there, support for that version ends this Thursday. You > might be considerably ahead going with Fedora. Though all the talk about > "bleeding edge" scares some people, I personally have had good luck with > Fedora 1 at work and will probably install 1 or 2 at home within the next > week or two to replace 9. It's also worth noting that 9's installer has a > problem which makes the cursor in vertical lists appear to be a line below > where it really is. This has been fixed in Fedora. > > There doesn't yet seem to be much documentation in the Fedora project (the > Release Notes are good), but there is quite a bit of docs on the RH9 home > page, including a Getting Started guide which, though it is rather > GUI-oriented, is still pretty good. I get screamed at every time I mention > it, but their primary focus is GUI. This means we have a few extra hoops to > jump through and a few more rough edges. So far this hasn't become too > significant for experienced users, so if something isn't aimed at us, don't > get hyper right away. For example, Fedora's installer doesn't give you an > option to have a text logon, but when you boot the first time you can go to > a console, logon, install your speech if it isn't already there (braille > is), and change /etc/inittab to give you text logins after that. If you've > got some experience and sighted help, it's not too bad; if you're unfamiliar > with Linux, it's a considerable thorn in your side until you get past it. > Once you do get past it, though, things are mostly pretty good. > > I'm afraid this is too longwinded. Sorry, > > Lee > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@xxxxxxx Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list