Can you be a bit more specific? I.e. Hardware being used, etc might help. Also, my personal recommendation especially because most computers don't have serial ports and to this day the Speakup Modified team hasn't made a Espeakup driven solution as of now that I know of, I'd suggest using some system that has software speech already put into it rather than waiting around for the Speakup Modified team. The software speech is becoming more and more important tipically these days for most computers, regardless of if they are laptops, or something else due to the serial ports disappearing. Two possibilitys exist asuming you want a console system: 1. GRMl Get it at: http://www.grml.org 2. Arch Linux. The Talking Arch page can be found here: http://www.the-brannons.com/tarch/ While the Vinux distro is yet another possibility, do note taht by default GUI stuff is running on the distro. I find that having GUI stuff running slows down over-all responsiveness of most Linux machines, including background processes such as SSHD, etc. You might wish to start out witha console-driven solution simply because I think that starting out with some GUI system is going to at some point require you to learn the terminal regardless. And Linux tipically begins with the CLI and not a GUI by default. Just my opinion. However the Speakup modified team might have a console driven talking solution with software speech in the next release. You'll need to speak to William Akker about that one though as I have no idea if the Speakup Modified team plans on supporting any type of Espeak/other software speech speakup solution. One other thought would be Gentoo, though software speech is not functioning on any of the Gentoo minimal CDs even though Speakup is installed. I believe the issue there is that they are not building witht he Modules use flag enabled, and thus the speakup modules do not exist ont he minimal CD. William Hubs is the one to talk to directly on that issue, though I believe that's the problem in princeable with that particular system. If I can be of more help-let me know, though I don't primarily work with Fedora myself. I've tended to go Gentoo/Arch/GRML if anything these days. And if I do use Ubuntu for anything I use it as a server OS and not a GUI related OS lately. -- Regards, --Keith Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37 at hotmail.com Yahoo/AIM/Twitter: keithint1234 Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1