Hi Steve. You bring up a good point. Linux is a kernel, and Debian and Redhat are the operating systems. Also other distributions such as Zipspeak and Slackware. Keeping this in mind, Speakup should work regardless of the distribution. As long as you are running in in the tty, things hsould work. Considering that Speakup is a kernel module. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dawes, Stephen <Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: RE: Why does it need that much hard disk space? Let's not get into distribution wars again. You can install as little or as much of Redhat as you like. It is no different then any other distribution in that respect. One of the bigger differences between distributions is the package manager. A number of distributions including RedHat use RPM as the package manager. Similarly, Debian, and I am sure others, use APT, or whatever it is called, as their package manager. Granted they are other differences between distributions, that I won't get into in this note because I don't know of them all. What I will say though, is that before slamming a one distribution over another, maybe take a step back and think of the other operating system that is made to run on the pc platform that not open source. Open source is why Linux is where it is today. Open source is why there are so many different distributions. Instead of slamming a distribution, or saying that one distribution is better then another, why not work towards getting speakup working on the distribution that the user brings to the discussion. After all, isn't it better to have speakup working with Linux regardless of the distribution? I'd say so! Steve Dawes PH: (403) 268-5527. Mailto: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:raul at asmodean.net] > Sent: 2002 May 08 1:00 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? > > > Ann Parsons said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at > 02:50:39PM -0400: > > Well, if you go with Red Hat, what do you expect? > > What do you mean? Does redhat install 3 gb worth of files? I don't > think it does and I've never installed it. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
