Actually it has all the console tools you could want. The gui is only a default if you take the default install, My wife and son also use the same computer and they are sighted and like the KDE gui. It boots into console and they can run startx to get to what they want. I've ran with emacspeak for some time now, but want to try speakup because it gives me access to not only the startup messages, but also better access to my prefered email and browser, pine and lynx. Ron Kirk Wood wrote: > > One thing I would love to know: why is there much interest in Mandrake? I > just don't get it. Why bother with a gui if you can't access it? And in > reading it seems that is the big selling point of the distro: it is > optimized for the gui. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > Nowlan's Theory: > He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from > the next freeway exit. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
