Hi Greg, I've been on this page before and I just checked it out again. All I could find on the USA and Canada sites were .iso.asc files. Unless I am completely under-estimating .asc files, since I really don't know what kind of files they are, the file sizes that were in those .iso directories were whey too small to be cd images. -- Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Progress, but now... > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
