I can use a college connection, 23MB. lovely. However, I someone said
something to me today which although he's trying to sell me the product made
me slightly suspicious. I suppose, the advantage of buying the disks is
I'll get tech support from the company and the distributer.
Darragh
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Why do we spend more time troubleshooting our systems than actually
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels?
> 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?
>
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> > Why do we spend more time troubleshooting our systems than
actually
> > using them?
>
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> > ----- 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
> > > >
> > > >
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