newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

[Steve Holmes]

Joe did an excellent tutorial on the setup of Slackware but beware
that Speakup is now mainstreamed into new kernels directly from
Slackware.com. just get the speakup.i or speakup.s disks, depending on
whether you have a SCSI hard disk or IDE model.  The other files you
would need to download are the A series, AP series and so on.  Yes, I
know what you mean about sourceforge's download speeds - not verry
pretty, are they.  ftp.slackware.com uses sourceforge.net for their
host but I had a hell of a time downloading the iso images from there
last summer.  I ended downloading them from Perdue or some place at
over sixty K per second.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:57:30PM -0700, Rob DeZonia wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>      Have a couple questions.  First is about Debian.  When I go to
> the Debian section of the Speakup ftp site, is everything I need to
> download for a Debian installation there or do I have to go to the
> Debian ftp site to download any other files?
>      Now on to Slackware.  First thanks to Joe Norton if he is within
> the sound of my synthesizer for the excellent Installing Slackware
> tutorial.  When I went to the Slackware ftp site and went to 8.0 there
> are about 25 subdirectories of files to download.  Must I download
> them all?  That could be quite a job since the average speed has been
> about 5K per second. lol
>      Which of the 3 flavors I've mentioned has the easiest package
> installer?  Thanks for letting me ramble.  I want my first Linux
> install to be as painless as possible so that's why all the questions.
> 
>           Rob
> 
> 
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