Unix

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Good afternoon,
It makes more sense to answer your last question before your first one,
so that's what I've done here.

> also I wondered if there is a big difference between
> Linux and unix. Any help would be appreciated.

Any more there really is no specific operating system called "Unix". At
one point, the name Unix refered to a version of Unix developed by AT&T,
but these days Unix refers to a group of operating systems derived from
or based on the original. Linux is one of these operating systems.
Others are Apple's OSX, all flavors of BSD, and several others.

> I was just wondering if I could use speakup with this computer, from what I know
> the mac os is a version of unix. 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 just wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my laptop or do
> I have to be running Linux,

Speakup works directly with the Linux kernel to provide speach.
Therefore, it won't work on any Unix variant other than Linux. If you
want, you could dual boot and use Linux on your MAC, at which point
speakup would work. There are also user space (as opposed to kernel
space) screen access solutions that might help you with OSX. Does the
built-in screen reader distributed with OSX not read terminal windows?
Joe
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