Hi, Rod: Well, let's see how simply I can answer you. Piece of cake on the DSL. In fact, we can help you get up to speed better because you have DSL. As for the rest of it--it's in there. All of it, and a lot more. Welcome home! PS: I've attached the curent draft version of a HOWTO that may help direct you to some more reading. On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Rob wrote: > Hello List, > > I'll try and keep this short and I suppose one person answering > will do, don't expect a big ol' thread on my question. > Well it all started a couple Saturdays ago in my In box when I got > a newsletter talking about, in part, investigating Linux and it gave a > url. I followed it and was very intrigued since I miss my old Unix > Shell account that I started on the computer with a few years ago. > After doing some digging I found out about Speakup and the > synthesizers it supports etc. I will be buying a Doubletalk if I > indeed pursue Linux as an alternate operating system. > I guess my immediate questions are, I have a dsl connection, how > hard will it be to configure so that I may use it. Also, does Linux > have a built in Telnet client and IRC client like my old Unix shell > used to? How hard is it to find programs like Lynx and Pine? > I know this is an established list with people already well into > the use of Linux and I hate to bog it down with a bunch of newbie > questions, but I looked all over and could not find a "Linux for blind > newbies" list or I would have gone there lol. > If anyone wants to email me directly you can mail to > robd1953 at mindspring.com > I just basically want to see how people feel about using this > exciting alternative to the dreaded Windows. *grin* > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20020415/f0be87d0/attachment.html>
