choosing a distro and version

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Have you confirmed that your blt works from DOS or windows?
Greg


On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 06:52:50PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> Ed,
> Wich speach synth are you using? I just cant seem to get my Braille Lite to
> work, and that's the only thing I got (until tuxtalk is ready). Do you have
> any ideas? I called tec support and they gave me all the dumb ass solutions
> like "is your cable hooked up?
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex Snow
> P.S. what kind of system are you using? I'm using a 1 gig amd box with 128
> megs of ram and thirty gigs of disk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Barnes" <ed.barnes at janus.northatlantic.nf.ca>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: choosing a distro and version
> 
> 
> > 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 at gmx.net>
> > 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.
> >
> >
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