Hello, I have been trying to get orca, but with very little success, garnome didn't seem to want to compile everything successfully on my slackware machine (it seemed to fail when compiling HAL). Then when searching around about orca and other systems, I noticed that FreeBSD had it in ports, and being interested in what FreeBSD is liike (and also having a blank partition on my computer where a dead version of windows used to reside), I decided to try FreeBSD (requiring working through a serial console to get it setup). It seemed to be going OK, util network was to be connected to get internet access, where up on the kernel seems to have a problem and the machine gets restarted. Then hearing more good reports of Ubuntu from someone nearby, I decided to try that out, success finally, the CD booted and orca started speaking fine. Now orca, from what I can tell on the ubuntu CD will solve some of those difficulties of Linux that requires me to keep at least one computer with a copy of windows (mainly the browser not supported issues and javascript things). Now for the actual questions. Would it be worth trying to persue installing gnome and orca in slackware, or would it be simpler to move over to ubuntu and having to move all configuration? Remember that both could co-exist for some time as I have that blank partition. Also if I was to move to ubuntu, is there a speakup package, or would it require a custom kernel? Also is there anything I should know about having both orca and speakup on a system, e.g. changing speakup to no synth before starting orca? From Michael Whapples
