I strongly suggest you make a decision and stick with it. As the old adage has it, the grass is always greener on the other side. Don't get me wrong. I like Fedora. I've used it for years, and I plan to stay with it. But, if you've been learning Ubuntu, you need a much better reason than you give below for leaving it in favor of some other distro. That's no way to learn Linux. Once you're very comfortable, perhaps you might want the experience of different distros so that you can compare how things are done--but that's a different issue. I stand by the advice we have long provided in the Speakup Modified Fedora Installation HOWTO, which I now quote: "Clearly, all users can choose among several Linux distributions, and we note and applaud the several distributions of GNU/Linux that now directly provide Speakup in their standard distribution channels--including Slackware and Debian. Which particular distribution one should choose is really a matter of personal choice. Our only advice is that users unfamiliar with Linux choose a distribution for which they can most easily get help when they have questions. In other words, it's harder for the user of Fedora to help someone using Debian or Slackware. This is an important point because beginning users will most certainly have questions--many questions." Janina Michael Weaver writes: > I have been using Ubuntu for a good while now and I am still using it > at home on my desktop which duel boots with Windows XP until I can get > more accessibility using a web browser with speech be that Orca or > Speakup. > Ben Fowler one of the Huddersfield Linux Group chaps who has been > helping me with my system at home didn't think that Speakup was being > dropped in the next release of Ubuntu but when we talked about it this > week at a meeting in Birstall which I managed to get to as a lot of > people attend both groups and I try to when I can get transport, he > said it would be a disappointing move if it was. > This makes me wonder if I should perhaps should switch to Fedora. I > know I don't have a hardware synthesiser and Speakup's enphasis is on > hardware speech but would it be a better move switching in order to > get both graphical and text console support? > I could of course stick with Ubuntu especially with me now having the > Braillenote which seems to give me access to Brltty but what does > anybody else think? > What hints would anyone give if I were to make a switch ie being able > to get access to configuring wireless Internet etc? > Trying to set up for Internet via wireless has not happened in Ubuntu > so I am still using my router which connected to my Ethanet port. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
