Hello, I sent a message to this list introducing myself and never got a response. I wanted to know what is the best distribution of Linux to get that will run good with Fusion and can I download it? On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:11 PM, William Rivera wrote: > 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 at clearwire.net> > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
