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

[Garrett Klein]

Hello,

	I am a JAWS for Windows user as well. I use it at school, and 
I use this Linux laptop at home. As far as distros, I'd personally 
recommend slackware (www.slackware.com), as it has a Speakup-enabled 
kernel in its stock distribution. I'd be willing to help you off-list, 
if need be, because there will definitely be some challenging parts. 
The address, BTW, is kleins at iquest.net. HTH.

Garrett
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 
12:20:41AM +0100, 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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