Thank you for the information both about the correct spelling of ubuntu and for getting me straighter on the speech issues. Is there software speech that installs from the live CD so that one ends up with speech on the console? This laptop only has one PCMCIA slot available which I will probably wan to use for a RS-232 port so software speech is highly desired. I will continue on a different message with the rest of my questions. Many thanks. Willem van der Walt writes: > It is u b u n t u and it works well. > Speakup as you might know, has had some work done to it lately. > As far as I am aware, there currently is no pre-built ubuntu kernel > containing speakup, but there are packages available. > There were some problems with the latest Ubuntu using pulsaudio which > caused some issues with speech, but the previous version works well. > The version I have on my Del laptop is 7.10. > There is also a variant of ubuntu called xubuntu, which is geared to > smaller machines. > I have that running on a small 500 mhz machine with speakup and > espeak talking fine. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list