Hi Alex. Thanks for writing. I would actually prefer to go with a system that is not a dual boot because I hate dual boots unless they are the *only* option so I will be running the system on a system dedicated to Linux only. I also want the challenges of configuring the system as someone who will be graduating from an I.T. program in May. I feel the little introduction we received with regard to Linux totally missed the boat so to speak so I want to teach myself all I can. I am going to go Red Hat because there are more users of that distro locally so I figure should I do anything to totally mess up my machine I'll have more help sources around here should I need to avail of them. Thanks and have a nice day. Ed Barnes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:23 AM Subject: Re: choosing a distro and version Hi Ed, I am a first-time linux user and have a piece of advice: If you haven't used linux befor, download "zipspeak" from ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/zipspeak/zipspeak.zip It's a preconfigured slackware that will run from a fat partition. I'd suggest it for people who are new to linux. It is pretty easy to setup and I know how to set it up. Also it's author is very helpfull. Hope this helps Alex Snow P.S. I am working on a red hat version of zipspeak. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
