Noone could be bothered answering my post, maybe if I ask the same thing in a different way they will - or maybe they hate newbies

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Jonathan,
  Unfortunately, there is no perfect distribution. The best I can recommend doing is to read about various distributions and see which one you like the best. Some of the more popular ones are listed below:
Fedora, formerly Red Hat Linux: http://www.fedora.com
Debian Linux: http://www.debian.org
Slackware Linux: http://www.slackware.com
Mandrake Linux: http://www.mandrake.com



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On 4/25/2004 at 12:20 AM Jonathan Tyrer wrote:

>I'd like to get into the whole open-source/Linux thing.  Until now, I've
>only been able to use Microsoft products as I am a user of Jaws for
>Windows.
>
>I'm about to get a new computer at home and would like to duel-boot it
>with Linux. So, I've got a Dectalk Express, so which is the best
>distribution of Linux to get?
>
>After I get going, I will want to use Gnome and Gnopericunus, but I'd
>also like console access to.
>
>JT
>
>
>JT
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Saqib Shaikh
>Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 11:38 PM
>To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
>Subject: RE: Zipspeak 9.1 has been released!
>
>
>Good work Nick!
>
>Hope my previous email explained well enough that I have not abandoned
>Zipspeak users - I'm still willing (and regularly do) answer people's
>Zipspeka questions.
>
>Saqib
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>On Behalf Of nick G
>Sent: 24 April 2004 23:33
>To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>Subject: Zipspeak 9.1 has been released!
>
>After far too long on ice, the zipspeak project has resurfaced.  New
>features in zipspeak 9.1 include the Linux kernel 2.4.22, speakup 1.5,
>the links web browser, and more.  The l y n x browser has been removed
>by Slackware, but don't fret, work on zipspeak 9.11 is now in progress.
>Upcoming features will be the inclusion of the l y n x browser and Matt
>Campbell's lynx configuration, deb2tgz, a phocility by which deb
>packages can be converted to tgz's, and the inclusion of a version of
>apt for Slackware.  We will not update the Kernel until Slackware does
>so.
>    First of all, I'd like to thank a few people.  I'd like to thank
>Matthew Campbell for his look at Linux series.  It was this series that
>got me started on Linux, and made me hear about the zipspeak Linux
>distribution. I'd like to thank Sakhib shake for sending the message to
>the speakup list oh so long ago telling how to create a version of
>zipspeak.  Without these people, I don't think zipspeak would have a
>maintainer now.  I know that it is very easy to create this distro, more
>so than it was before, but there are those who would probably want to
>just download, configure, and run. Therefore, I decided to do this.
>Hopefully, We'll be able to post to the speakup ftp site, and I will do
>everything in my power to make sure this distro is maintained again.
>    Happy Linux using, and looking forward to zipspeak 9.11, Nick
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