I believe you're referring to the apt commands. Those are also available on Red Hat, but they don't come on the Red Hat installation disks. You get apt separately if you want it. On Red Hat, apt functions as a front end to rpm which is itself a powerful package management application. Steven M. Sawczyn writes: > From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <ssawczyn at email.com> > > I'd like to thank you and everyone who has replied to my post. One > aspect of Debian which appealed to me was its ability to auto-download > packages as needed. Is this a feature specific to Debian, or can > Slackware and/or redhat do the same thing? Would it be just as easy to > search for packages when I actually need them? Can anyone compare the > installation of Debian to that of Slackware? > > Again, thanks for all help, > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Thomas D. Ward > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:41 AM > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: Which distribution? > > > > > > Hi, Red Hat does have a text install. You type a command like: > > > > text speakup_synth=synth > > > > where synth is the name of your synth. > > The problem most have is they must absolutely select the > > speakup keymap > > during the install or the install will not talk vary well at all. > > As for what Linux is best that ends up a users choice. Red Hat is vary > > popular because it has good hardware detection, is the > > easiest Linux to > > setup, has a large list of packages, and is becoming an > > industry standard. > > However, some users love editing files, getting into the guts > > of there Linux > > os, Debian and Slakware seam to apeal to those users. > > If you are like me and don't want to customize everything > > under the sun Red > > hat will apeal to you. If you are one who likes to do > > everything from the > > ground up, edit configurations, and customize to your hearts > > desire, then > > debian or Slack may be a better choice. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Steven M. Sawczyn <ssawczyn at email.com> > > To: Speakup <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 5:58 PM > > Subject: Which distribution? > > > > > > > Greetings, I'm wondering if someone might advise me as to > > which Linux > > > distribution is the easiest to install using Speakup? Eventually, I > > > want to get both Speakup and Emacspeak up and running. > > > > > > Earlier today, I tried installing Redhat, but found the > > menus extremely > > > difficult to navigate with Speakup. Not sure if there's a > > text-based > > > install for Redhat, so the process may have been harder > > than it needed > > > to be. I've also heard very good things about Debian, but > > have never > > > used it myself and am not sure what the installation > > process is like. > > > > > > Any comments/suggestions/help greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
