I ended up buying the fedora core 3, I think it is, distro with speakup from cheapbytes. I just don't have the patience to let the free one online download at dialup speed over cable for almost a week straight, and if I lock up, start it all over. When I tried, it was downloading about 2 k a second. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxx> To: "bl" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 8:33 AM Subject: Re: looking for a new distribution > When you say you tried the "official patches for speakup, " does that mean > you tried installing from the ISO at http://linux-speakup.org/? > > I installed the speakup modified debian distrabution from linux-speakup.org > a couple of weeks ago and found it could hardly have been easier. Of > course, I happen to have a hardware synth available and that helps a lot. > > > t 04:27 PM 7/21/2005, you wrote: > >I'm in the market for a new linux distribution, I've been using gentoo > >for a while, but began having problems with it, I later tried Debian > >sarge, but had a hard time patching the kernel with both the > >kernel-patch-speakup and official patches. Any suggestions? > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > John G. Heim > jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 3-4189 > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list