Hello

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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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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