Hi Thomas. While answering Chuck's question about trying zipspeak, you made the statement: That's possible. Many of us started on Zipspeak, > and then moved on to big and full distributions. However, if you want >to play with a full distribution you might want to try Slackware 8 which >comes with Speakup built in, or Red hat 7.2 which there is a >distribution of it modified on the Speakup site. Where can I find this version of Slackware 8 that has speakup already built in? tia Jason Symes