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

[Alex Snow]

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actually the slackware install is both faster and easier then fedora. 
I would recomend that for someone who's just starting out with linux 
because the installer works relatively well with speakup and gives you 
much controle over your installed system.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 
12:55:29PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> *SNIP*
> After I get going, I will want to use Gnome and Gnopericunus, but I'd
> also like console access to.
> *SNIP*
> 
> The thing is, Gnopernicus despite what anyone tells you is nowhere near 
> prime time. it is still very much in alpha and there's a mountain of 
> work to be done on it so at this stage it's really not as usable as we 
> might want.
> You however, will primarily have console access for which imho speakup 
> is excellent.
> and yes speakup wil work with the dec-talk express.
> as for what distribution of linux to obtain, each of them have their 
> merrits. However, go for the distribution you can get the most support 
> for.
> I won't go into details as to whether one is better than the other 
> because I'm not after starting a flame war.
> as I said go for the distribution you can get the best support for and 
> stick with that until you're competent enough to branch out and try 
> something else.
> you might want something that's easy to install to start with so if I 
> were to recomend a distro, I'd reccomend fedora.
> hth
> 
> -- 
> Shaun Oliver
> 
> 
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