If you mean ubuntu it can be gotten from www.ubuntu.com. I assume they all would work well with fusion, however ubuntu is probably the easyest to set up from what I've read. Unless someone tells me otherwise I think fedora has to be installed with a hardware synth. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "VaShaun Jones" <vjones@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:17 AM Subject: Re: Hello >I take it that you are saying it can be downloaded? Do you know where > by chance? > On Nov 9, 2007, at 1:13 AM, Gaijin wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:17:53PM -0500, VaShaun Jones wrote: >>> 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? >> >> Hello VaShaun, >> >> I'd have replied, but I don't know what Fusion is, and as for >> which distro, I use Slackware v11, as it suppports my hardware speech >> synthesizer . Ubuntoo should be a good choice. It's a matter of what >> you want or need, as well as taste. I chose Slackware because I've >> heard that it's one of the more secure distros and doesn't use RPM or >> dpkg package managers. I plan on porting to LFS (Linux From >> Scratch) in >> the near future, which is about as hard as Linux gets. Maybe I'm a >> masochist, but I despise Slackware's BSD style initialization scripts. >> very disorganized, but what can you expect to come out of Berkeley >> these >> days. Fedora and Ubuntoo both support software speech synthesis and >> should do you well. The Linux kernel is in the middle of a transition >> at the moment as everything seems to be moving to USB devices, and >> SpeakUp isn't quite up there yet. Only serial speech synthesizers are >> currently supported. Until the dust clears, or unless you have a >> serial >> synthesizer, I recomment Ubuntoo and Fedora. Just stick the CD in the >> drive and read the installation docs on the disk. You'll have to look >> for the many download sites to get a copy, or just buy the CDs from >> places like CheapBytes. If you're anything like the rest of us, >> you'll >> go through many flavors of Linux before settling on a distro you love. >> Take care, >> >> 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
