but isn't it true that debian has even more apps to offer than rh? i am just reading the slac page and it seems that they retain the netconfig and other such apps like pppconfig to configure things. something that red hat has chucked out in favour of gnome tools. dissapointed in rh on this issue. > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Davis [mailto:ldavis at shellworld.net] > Sent: Friday, 28 March 2003 5:26 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: RE: Which linux distro?? > > > I was a Slackware man for a few years, tried RH a couple of times, but > went back to Slack. > Then, I was out of Linux for a while, and upon coming back a > couple months > ago, I decided to try Debian. It's the best compromise between the > spartonness of SLW, and the bloatedness of RHL; with all of the > functionality (should say availability) of the latter. > > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
