ok cool i am thinking about slackware now. but do you get as many of the apps out of the box as you do with say debian? or even redhat? > -----Original Message----- > From: Juan Hernandez [mailto:juan at wurldlink.com] > Sent: Friday, 28 March 2003 4:07 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Which linux distro?? > > > I use slackware 9.0, I love it... I am not normally a linux > person, because > I've worked with bsd platforms for years spisificly freebsd, > I wish speakup > would be ported to freebsd someday... but slackware is the one I found > easest to install. I like the hardware support, and it > doesn't take much > room up like rh does. > > Juan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mirabella, Mathew J" <Mathew.Mirabella at team.telstra.com> > To: "speakup list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; "emacspeak list" > <emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:06 PM > Subject: Which linux distro?? > > > ok folks. I need to pose a question to you all that I have > already asked > before, and the responses some time ago suggested that redhat > may be the > best way to go... things may have changed since folks on the > speakup list > are talking about the lack of built in speakup support with > new versions of > redhat. > So. the question is... for a blind person, new to linux > wanting to have a > speech based system with emacspeak and speakup and wanting to > start taking > advantage of newer stuff with gnome etc. and also wanting > good support of > new hardware... which linux distro would people recommend. > I am hearing that slackware or debian or redhat are the three > that most > people seem to use, with redhat looking a bit shakey lately. > slackware 9 > seems to have the newest gnome stuff...??? > or maybe people think that redhat 7.3 with a speakup kernel > is the best way > to go? > please give me your thoughts. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
