Distributions with speakup modified kernels?

[Sean McMahon]

Um aren't all the distros free?  If you need disks you can get the disk
immages of the net I'm pretty sure.
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels?


> Hmm, not a bad idea, I've just looked at the price, is there a reason that
> its cheaper than most of the other distributions?  Is that a really
horrible
> question?  I notice that it has emacs and gnopernicus as well.
>
> Are these preeconfigured like in Fedora?
>
> I'd like to make up my mind by getting as many views as possible along
with
> reading as much about the distributions as possible.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Darragh
>
> P.S, one more thing.  I don't think Slackware has RPM or Yum support does
> it?  I know of like them two apps.  Can they be installed separately?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Distributions with speakup modified kernels?
>
>
> > use slackware. it's reaaaaaaly stable.
> > and comes with a speakup modified kernel in the stock distribution.
> > On
> > Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:21:00PM -0000, Darragh wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Ok, I've installed and messed around with Fedora but I'm sick of
people,
> a
> > > certain person in this country telling me that its not stable, there
are
> > > still bugs, its still an alfa bla bla bla.
> > >
> > > My question:
> > > I'm being advised to go for another distribution.  Red hat 9 was
> suggested.
> > > If I do indeed go for another distribution what would you suggest?  I
> will
> > > mainly use speakup and if I can ever get it to work, emacspeak
however,
> I'd
> > > like to mess around with gnome and gnopernicus.
> > >
> > > I've just spent the last three hours trying to figure out why Winblows
> xp
> > > stopped recognising the NTFS partition on this disk when I should have
> being
> > > working on stuff for deadlines due tomorrow.
> > >
> > > I'd really appreciate any views you have about any distribution of
Linux
> > > that you've used successfully with speakup.
> > > The distros that were suggested are:
> > > mandrake,
> > > slackware,
> > > red hat
> > > suSE
> > > and
> > > Free BSD.
> > >
> > > please please let me know.
> > >
> > >
> > > Darragh
> > >
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