Best text-based speakup linux install

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Sat Feb 4 07:30:47 EST 2017


Just to let you know, I have a gentoo install since 2011 and never had
to reinstall.
You have to keep updating it, I do every couple of weeks or a month.

On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 06:34:29 -0500,
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 
> If you manage talkingarch correctly it is stable and will fit on
> a system like that.  A person would have to be pretty far into
> linux to easily get talkingarch installed though.  Definitely not
> for people with a fear of using command line applications.
> Slackware is no longer accessible but when it was accessible
> would have been easier to install.
>  I would stay well and truely away from gentoo since it's longer
> and more complex to install than talkingarch and according to one
> of this list's members has to be reinstalled to fix breakages
> that happen to it with use and time.  The F123e distribution is
> supposed to install automatically with a working (ethernet)
> internet connection I have a copy of it here and one of these
> days will attach to ethernet and try it out.  Another easier
> talkingarch install may be antergos.
> Puppylinux might be another one to check out though I don't know
> if that's still accessible.
> 
> When I got that one up, it was like knoppix with a menu
> interface. On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Joseph Norton wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 22:31:30
> > From: Joseph Norton <joseph.norton at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> > To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > Subject: Best text-based speakup linux install
> > 
> > Hi listers:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I had a gentleman write me off-list and he told me he has a 512-Mb system
> > he'd like to install some kind of text-based distro on.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I think he could still even install Debian without the X system, but, I'm
> > not sure which release to point him to.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Also, I bet Arch would be another good possibility.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
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