I have a gateway which runs redhat like a dreem! ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Harding <bharding@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 8:25 PM Subject: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? > I was thinking of getting another machine to just run linux on. I was > thinking to go either valinux or dell. I don't really know if there's much > else to choose from. I could just get another custom built with windows > Millenium on it, do the famous format operation and put whatever linux > distro I may choose, probably redhat or something (a distro I've not tried > out yet) on it. The problem I see is the computer place I got this desktop > from doesn't seem to sell open architect motherboards in systems now. > They're more integrated, and have less slots now, and usb instead of serial > ports is bad news. They basically had this open architect board because the > on board sound on that other one started giving noise I didn't want, and > switching to sblive wouldn't work any other way. > If there's no easy way to get speakup to load on plugging the synthesizer > in without rebooting, or for that matter replacing the kernel of one of > these already set up systems, I could just get ethernet going and use > telnet or ssh to it to do whatever I need from my windows/linux dual boot > system. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
