Right. And ubuntu has become really popular lately. I doubt very many
people are running grml full time. But lots of people are running ubuntu.
That might be worth considering for a new user.
On the other hand, I have a fairly new Dell 745 at work and ubuntu won't
speak at all on it. It doesn't recognize the sound card or something. But
I don't really know what's wrong because it doesn't speak. I was trying
ubuntu-7.04. A more recent version might work better. Like i said in my
other message, i'm not bashing either ubuntu or orca. I just wouldn't
expect them to be as smooth as Windows/jaws. You're dealing with cutting
edge stuff on both ends.
I am building a PC from scratch (just to do it) and intend to use it to
switch away from Windows/jaws to linux/orca. I don't know if I'll go with
ubuntu or plain old debian. Ubuntu was going to drop support for speakup
(they may already have) and that would eliminate them from consideration for
me.
From: "Geoff Shang" <Geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Beginner, soliciting input for where to begin.
Hi,
It's worth pointing out that Ubuntu 7.10 is due out shortly, so if you
want to use Ubuntu, you may want to wait until the new version comes out.
I had no problems with installing Ubuntu 7.04 with Orca, but I did have
more RAM available than 384k.
Geoff.
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