Unix

[Hermann]

On 28.07.2009 at 17:10:46 james collins <james.collins75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am a speakup newbie. I own a MacBook pro laptop running mac os x
> 10.5.7 I think. I was just wondering if I could use speakup with this
> computer, from what I know the mac os is a version of unix. 

Is the OS Leppard? If so, why don't you use Voiceover?

> I want to
> use speakup at the command line, there is a program called terminal on
> my laptop and when I open it it opens a unix shell 
> I think. 

I doubt that this will succeed, but I don't know exactly.

> I just
> wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my laptop or do I
> have to be running Linux, also I wondered if there is a big difference
> between Linux and unix. Any help would be appreciated.
>
I fear you have to use a natural Linux. MacOS is based on Unix, but this
does not mean, that they are identical.
I wonder if I'm wrong.
Hermann