you want to buy the oficial cd set? I find it easier just to download the isos. of course if you're on dialup this won't work. I have a 2 mb downstream so an iso downloads in about an hour. On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:21:15PM -0000, Darragh wrote: > Hmm, not a bad idea, I've just looked at the price, is there a reason that > its cheaper than most of the other distributions? Is that a really horrible > question? I notice that it has emacs and gnopernicus as well. > > Are these preeconfigured like in Fedora? > > I'd like to make up my mind by getting as many views as possible along with > reading as much about the distributions as possible. > > Thanks > > > Darragh > > P.S, one more thing. I don't think Slackware has RPM or Yum support does > it? I know of like them two apps. Can they be installed separately? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Why do we spend more time troubleshooting our systems than actually > using them? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:18 PM > Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels? > > > > use slackware. it's reaaaaaaly stable. > > and comes with a speakup modified kernel in the stock distribution. > > On > > Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:21:00PM -0000, Darragh wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Ok, I've installed and messed around with Fedora but I'm sick of people, > a > > > certain person in this country telling me that its not stable, there are > > > still bugs, its still an alfa bla bla bla. > > > > > > My question: > > > I'm being advised to go for another distribution. Red hat 9 was > suggested. > > > If I do indeed go for another distribution what would you suggest? I > will > > > mainly use speakup and if I can ever get it to work, emacspeak however, > I'd > > > like to mess around with gnome and gnopernicus. > > > > > > I've just spent the last three hours trying to figure out why Winblows > xp > > > stopped recognising the NTFS partition on this disk when I should have > being > > > working on stuff for deadlines due tomorrow. > > > > > > I'd really appreciate any views you have about any distribution of Linux > > > that you've used successfully with speakup. > > > The distros that were suggested are: > > > mandrake, > > > slackware, > > > red hat > > > suSE > > > and > > > Free BSD. > > > > > > please please let me know. > > > > > > > > > Darragh > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > > back. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
