It sounds like your friend has a lot of trouble with graphical systems. Switching from windows to linux would not help if he tried to use speech enabled graphical desktops on linux. You'll want to edit /etc/inittab and change the run level from 5 to 3, so that linux comes up in text mode. If your friend also has trouble with screen applications, like I do, then he may want a 100% text based solution, which is only possible on linux. I wrote my own software to make this possible, and have been using it for 8 years now. http://www.eklhad.net/cli.html http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net http://www.eklhad.net/linux/jupiter For more information, contact me off list at eklhad@xxxxxxxxxxx Karl Dahlke _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list