> The fact that it's no longer under development makes me > nervous though. But thanks! I've taken a look at the site, and > it looks like a great program. Don't let the "no longer under development" keep you from trying it out...one of the beautiful aspects of a live CD is that you can try it without it ever touching your hard-drive (unless you explicitly request that it does). Oralux was a derivative of Knoppix which has been under steady development for a number of years now, and has spawned a number of custom CDs based on it. In turn, Knoppix was based on Debian which is still very-much supported. Ubuntu is also a derivative of Debian, which shows the strength of this heritage. My suggested path would be to try Oralux first--which would cost you nothing more than the time to download, and the price of the CD to which you'd burn it. If you like it, and it serves your purpose, it has some of the Knoppix tools for installing to the hard-drive; or you could try an install of one of its parent/cousin distros such as Debian or Ubuntu. I don't know how accessible the installs themselves are, but both make it easy enough to install "yasr" and "festival" packages for speech/screen-reading. Or they might even offer Speakup (unfortunately, my Debian install doesn't seem to know anything about Speakup in its repositories). One of the beautiful things about a live-cd combined with a USB thumb-drive is that you can boot off the CD from any supported PC, keep all your files on the thumb drive, and have access to a speech-enabled system with all your files, anywhere you go. Another alternative to a USB thumb-drive, assuming such computers always have network access would be to use some public file-store combined with FUSE (file-system in user-space) such as mounting "Gmail" as a folder, allowing you to keep all your files "in the cloud". This is a slightly more exotic option, but certainly feasible. Anyways, I hope this gives you some ideas to play with, and gives you the encouragement to not be scared off by the "discontinued" status of Oralux. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list