Which Linux (again, I suspect)

[Steve Holmes]

One big selling point for Slackware is that speakup is incorporated
into the public distribution for 8.0 and 8.1; Speakup enabled images
of Red Hat are available from the speakup site (linux-speakup.org).
If you're reasonable familiar with slackware already and are
confortable using it, I would then go for 8.1.  It has a bunch of
floppies needed to boot the thing now, but it seems worth the trip.  I
just installed slackware 8.1 a week or so ago and it went very
smoothly.

You can download the iso image of the slackware-install disk and burn
that onto a CD but you better find a fast link; slackware.com
performed terribly for me; I went to carroll.cac.psu.edu and found
current files there.  Some of the other mirrors of slackware are *NOT*
current!

Hope this helps.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Tim Burgess wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Some of you will almost certainly groan to see me back again after my
> abortive attempts to get Linux going on some decrepit hardware.  The
> good news is that I now have access to something a little better with a
> network card that's supported.  I've got a Sony Vao laptop running at
> 600 MHz.  I've got Slackware 7.1 and some kind soul gave me a V8.0 CD,
> which I can't lay my hands on.  I notice that 8.1 is out and I have
> intermittent access to an ADSL link.  Two questions:
> 
> 1 - Should I go for Slackware 8.1 or another distro?
> 
> 2 - Can somebody give me a complete download URL to get what I need -
> I'll be telling somebody else what to do and I don't want to mess them
> around.  I noticed on the Slackware site that there were two links for
> 8.1, one of which was called an ISA image.  This terminology confused me
> - is it an ISA image I'm looking for in order to burn it onto a CD?
> 
> All suggestions and advice gratefully accepted.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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