IS THERE SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT HAS A MINUTE AND CAN HELP ME FIGURE SOME THINGS OUT? I AM NEW TO LINUX AND DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING AND WOULD LIKE SOMEONE TO EITHER CALL OR SKYPE ME PLEASE. On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Mike Reiser wrote: > 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 at mjb-llc.com> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
