To get the slackware isos with speakup already included, go to: http://www.slackware.com/getslack/ >From there, select a mirror closest to you. Greg On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:58:04PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote: > Hi, > My issues with the serial port have been fixed. Sure enough, it was disabled in the bios. > > Now comes the preparation of installing Linux. > I have a copy of the Slackware 9.1 boot and root disks, (3 floppies in all) and the 3 shrike images burned onto cd. > First, I've seen references to the slackware .iso images, but haven't been able to actually find them. So any info of where they can be obtained would be appreciated. > Second, if I interpreted certain recent comments correctly, it appears that the newest red hat distro is the fedora, not the shrike. True? > Finally, what would be the pros and cons of these distributions? > I hope to eventually install circlemud and learn some C++ while learning the mud server. However, first things first. I will need to learn basic Linux and get a more complete understanding of the Linux infrastructure. Currently, too much windows/dos in the brain. > > Thanks for any and all help. > -- Rob > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
