Which linux distro??

[Mirabella, Mathew J]

ok cool i am thinking about slackware now.  but do you get as many of the apps out of the box as you do with say debian? or even redhat?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Hernandez [mailto:juan at wurldlink.com]
> Sent: Friday, 28 March 2003 4:07 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Which linux distro??
> 
> 
> I use slackware 9.0, I love it... I am not normally a linux 
> person, because
> I've worked with bsd platforms for years spisificly freebsd, 
> I wish speakup
> would be ported to freebsd someday... but slackware is the one I found
> easest to install.  I like the hardware support, and it 
> doesn't take much
> room up like rh does.
> 
>     Juan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mirabella, Mathew J" <Mathew.Mirabella at team.telstra.com>
> To: "speakup list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; "emacspeak list"
> <emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:06 PM
> Subject: Which linux distro??
> 
> 
> ok folks.  I need to pose a question to you all that I have 
> already asked
> before, and the responses some time ago suggested that redhat 
> may be the
> best way to go... things may have changed since folks on the 
> speakup list
> are talking about the lack of built in speakup support with 
> new versions of
> redhat.
> So.  the question is... for a blind person, new to linux 
> wanting to have a
> speech based system with emacspeak and speakup and wanting to 
> start taking
> advantage of newer stuff with gnome etc. and also wanting 
> good support of
> new hardware... which linux distro would people recommend.
> I am hearing that slackware or debian or redhat are the three 
> that most
> people seem to use, with redhat looking a bit shakey lately.  
> slackware 9
> seems to have the newest gnome stuff...???
> or maybe people think that redhat 7.3 with a speakup kernel 
> is the best way
> to go?
> please give me your thoughts.
> 
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