Hi Michael, Willhem and Al, thanks for your replies. I am going to take your advice Michael and just get a working system up and running and progress from that point as I learn more about Linux. There is certainly lots to learn just from a minimum install. Willem, I was not able to get speech from a console after the full graphical install even though I followed the steps outlined in the install howto and switched to a console using ctrl+alt+F1. I think I tried two or three consoles with the same results. Thanks again guys for your suggestions. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Hello > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:11:33PM -0500, William Rivera wrote: >> Hi all, I just joined the list and am a newbie at Linux. > > Hi Bill, > If Fedora is anything like Debian v3, or is like most Linux > distributions, those disks hold nearly 4000 software packages, some of > which don't work well with other packages. For instance, you typically > cannot run more than one type of mail server at the same time, and there > are over half a dozen of them. They'll conflict with each other, and may > use > nearly 20 gigs of drive space. 10 gigs of drive space is a good size > for > a minimum installation. That's about 5 gigs for programs and > operating system, and another 5 gigs for data.. You'll find multiple > text editors, news, web browsers, and mail clients already installed in > a minimum installation, just in the command line interface. What you're > probably installing is selected "task Packages" that include the > choicest program selections. It will not be anywhere near all of what > is offered in Linux. I would advise installing a working system first > and slowly build from there. Linux will be confusing enough as it is > with all the packages a bare minimum installation will have included. > HTH, > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
