From: "Cris Ali" <filastin48@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:11 PM Subject: Few More questions! > Thanks for all of you who replied to my inquiry about the amount of Hard > Disk space needed to install linux. From the very many answers I received > so far, I got the impression that I can install a reasonably working > operating system on less than 1 Gig. This is what I was hoping to hear. It > means I won't need to buy a new hard disk. However, I also learned that > there are different destribution packages to install from. Four names were > mentioned, Slackware, Debian, Redhat, and Zipspeak. My questions are: Do > they all work fine with speak up? Yes. Zipspeak is a minidistribution of slackware that runs on a current msdos/winblows system. It has speakup built into the kernel. Debian works with speakup, so does redhat. Slackware comes with speakup already compiled into the kernel. Redhat and debian need special bootdisks I think. eeven Do they all allow for a full installation > >from beginning to end without sighted help? For the most part. I've heard that redhat is a little flacky, something about the disk druid utilody. One of you red hat people could probably clear that up. Al the others seem fine. Where can I find a complete > list of what components I need to install, and what components to ignore? Depends on what you want. If your a programmer, you want all the compiler and lib stuff. If you want to screw around with xwindows when the accessibility stuf is released later this year, you'll need to install it. > > On a different note, I am happy to recognize atleast two names of old IRC > friends on this list; Bill Acker, and Raul. If you remember cris from irc, > that's me. I am glad to finally get a chance to get in touch and say hello > again. > Thanks for everyone who helped so far. Your comments are extremely useful. > Regards, > Cris > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
