Ralph and all, What a richly intelligent way to pose this question. With your guidance in mind, I am going to ask this too. I am still seeking the hardware for my desired Linux system, but do know some of what I want to accomplish. I hear good things of gnome too, so if this is a better choice than speakup for my goals, that is fine too. I would like a distribution with the largest number of precompiled programs, with an emphasis on managing online audio and video, the viewing /capturing, not necessarily the editing. If sound editing has expanded here, say something at the audacity level if not audacity itself, this too would be welcome. I am considering dsl, so a distribution with tools to support this if possible likewise would be welcome. I would in turn get the hardware to fit the distribution requirements, and would be using a hardware synthesizer along the dec-talk lines. What do ou say based on the above? Thanks, Karen On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Ralph W. Reid wrote: > This depends on what you mean by 'best'. Each distribution has its > own emphasis, although they pretty much all have some common > elements. What are you looking for in your Linux system? A well > balanced system that you can add things to? A system with the largest > selection of precompiled programs? A system to use for a few selected > servers? A system you compile from scratch so that everything runs as > efficiently as possible on your given piece of hardware? More details > about your system requirements/wants would be helpful. > > My personal choice is Slackware, but you might want something > different. > > Let us all know what you are looking for, and have a great day. > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:43:16PM -0400, Nick Gawronski wrote: >> Hi, I was just wondering what the best fully featured linux version is >> that is up to date and includes speakup now that fedora core is not >> working with speakup and all I have is the old fedora core 3 that I >> completely messed up so don't want to reinstall it as it is very old >> now and I want a newer set of updated applications and tools. I would >> reinstall fedora core 3 but that version is rather old now and I don't >> really like the installer as it is not very speech friendly and >> keyboard friendly. Will fedora ever be usable in it's latest version >> with speakup and not just in version 3 and 4 with the kernels on the >> speakup page? >> >> -- >> My web page is http://www.nickgawronski.com >> >> Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. >> www.freedombox.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! > TAN (x) = SIN (x) / COS (x) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
