Which distribution?

[Steven M. Sawczyn]

Greetings and thanks to everyone who has replied to my message, I
appreciate the responses.  I haven't used Slackware since Kernel version
1.3.2, so I'm basically learning everything from scratch.  Way way back
then, gosh that seems like a long time ago, there was a text-based
installation script which prompted me to install each package, none of
this menu-based stuff.

Perhaps someone could point me in the direction of a good,
easy-to-understand comparison of the various Linux distributions out
there?  Essentially, I'm needing all the help I can get  -- I used
Slackware way back when, but now Red Hat seems to be the more popular
distribution.  Unfortunately, Emacspeak doesn't seem to be supported on
Slackware, so am not sure how easy that'll be to get up and running once
I get that far.

Again, thanks for all help.

Steve

starting the learning process

> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Prince
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:39 PM
> To: Speakup
> Subject: Re: Which distribution?
> 
> 
> From what I've seen, Slackware is probably the easiest to install with
> Speakup.  It has a Speakup kernel already on the CD, and the menus are
> easy to navigate.  You just get fiewer apps, but more apps can be
> downloaded from places like sourceforge.net, and some of the 
> configuration
> is less automated than Redhat.  The problem you had with the 
> Redhat menu
> interface is that they use starrs * to indicate that a 
> particular option
> in the menu is checked, and the punctuation level is set too 
> low to pick
> them up and actually read them.  Slackware's installer uses x's, so
> speakup picks them up really easily.  Debian has the most 
> apps, as far as
> I know, but Speakup doesn't install from the CD's.  I have 
> gotten by just
> fine using Slackware with Speakup and just downloading the 
> apps I need.
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
> panic("Foooooooood fight!");
> 	-- In the kernel source aha1542.c, after detecting a 
> bad segment list
> 
> Steven M. Sawczyn staggered into view and mumbled:
> 
> > Greetings, I'm wondering if someone might advise me as to 
> which Linux
> > distribution is the easiest to install using Speakup?  Eventually, I
> > want to get both Speakup and Emacspeak up and running.
> >
> > Earlier today, I tried installing Redhat, but found the 
> menus extremely
> > difficult to navigate with Speakup.  Not sure if there's a 
> text-based
> > install for Redhat, so the process may have been harder 
> than it needed
> > to be.  I've also heard very good things about Debian, but 
> have never
> > used it myself and am not sure what the installation 
> process is like.
> >
> > Any comments/suggestions/help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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