That's a good point. I wonder what the lowest usable system is. Can't you play mp3's with a P90? Anything that can run win95 and a resource-intensive assistive technology package and still be usable should be fine. <grin> Chris On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:56:44PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Good suggestion, Chris. Should it be "newer Windows system?" I'm thinking > there are still folks out there with Win 3.11 and Win 95 on boxes with > only megabytes of hd. > On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Chris Nestrud wrote: > > > You could mention that anything which runs Windows haf-way decently > > should work well with linux. This is just meant to assure new users > > that, if they're using their computer for Windows tasks, it's likely to > > work well with linux. > > > > Chris > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:04:03PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > I don't think it's useful to leave the minimum system requirement as it > > > is. While it is academically true that one can run linux with speakup on a > > > 386 or 486 system, doing so is a little bit more dificult than our blithe > > > comments suggest. It seems to me that most people here on out will use > > > some of the canned installation distributions, Debian, Slack, Redhat, > > > where speakup is already compiled in. How well do these support > > > installations on older chips with only a few hundred megabytes of hard > > > disk space? If they do that well--never mind this post. But, if not, let's > > > not steer people wrong. > > > > > > > > > Suggestion: > > > > > > Installation on older computers is not advised for people who've never > > > installed linux before. It's just harder, much harder, to get it > > > working. For > > > best results, especially if you want to listen to Real Audio and mp3s, > > > you should use a Pentium system with a hard disk that has several > > > gigabytes of space. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
