I won't get caught up in a distro war, but I can save you some money at least. Look for the same items on both newegg and tigerdirect--they'll be cheaper. On 11/23/2010 11:27 PM, Hart Larry wrote: > First of all, I want to thank all of you for sharing your ideas in > your favorite distros. My friend will be building me a machine--and at > home he is demoing these 3 distros we were reviewing, Arch, Debian, > and Slackware. He like myself loves LILO, but when he installed Debian > with an LVM, just kept saying lilo 10. So he wants me to consider > Slackware. > Well, in looking at some hand-picked favorite packages, Debian testing > and unstable has much newer versions than Slackware. An example was > tcsh which slackware is only on 6.15 while Debian testing is on 6.17. > Likewise for mp3gain > While Slackware well supports speakup, in looking in the package list, > I could not find either word speakup or blind. > Does Arch Linux support a DecTalk USB? > So around December 03 we buys supplies from Fries--and-away we go. I > look forward to reading all your comments on my outstanding concerns, > including getting lilo working in LVM--and-thanks so much in advance > Hart > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Thanks, Ty
