On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:26:21AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Please have a look at http://packages.qa.debian.org/speakup > It is already in testing, and is being integrated in the debian > Installer. Well, kewl. I can correct the guys at freenode then. Thanks. I was talking about SpeakUP support currently available, which is why I steered away from recommending Debian, as well as toward the various Live-CD's, which are easily replaceable or collectable. Debian Lenny isn't scheduled for release until September, so I've heard. As he said he was a novice, I tried not to steer him into an unfathomable maze of wiki pages and undocumented, bleeding edge tidbits that are worse than useless without even a working copy of Linux to play with. Michael