One big selling point for Slackware is that speakup is incorporated into the public distribution for 8.0 and 8.1; Speakup enabled images of Red Hat are available from the speakup site (linux-speakup.org). If you're reasonable familiar with slackware already and are confortable using it, I would then go for 8.1. It has a bunch of floppies needed to boot the thing now, but it seems worth the trip. I just installed slackware 8.1 a week or so ago and it went very smoothly. You can download the iso image of the slackware-install disk and burn that onto a CD but you better find a fast link; slackware.com performed terribly for me; I went to carroll.cac.psu.edu and found current files there. Some of the other mirrors of slackware are *NOT* current! Hope this helps. On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Tim Burgess wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of you will almost certainly groan to see me back again after my > abortive attempts to get Linux going on some decrepit hardware. The > good news is that I now have access to something a little better with a > network card that's supported. I've got a Sony Vao laptop running at > 600 MHz. I've got Slackware 7.1 and some kind soul gave me a V8.0 CD, > which I can't lay my hands on. I notice that 8.1 is out and I have > intermittent access to an ADSL link. Two questions: > > 1 - Should I go for Slackware 8.1 or another distro? > > 2 - Can somebody give me a complete download URL to get what I need - > I'll be telling somebody else what to do and I don't want to mess them > around. I noticed on the Slackware site that there were two links for > 8.1, one of which was called an ISA image. This terminology confused me > - is it an ISA image I'm looking for in order to burn it onto a CD? > > All suggestions and advice gratefully accepted. > > Cheers. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
