Only if the right boot parameters get supplied will grml start up with software speech enabled, but that's in the last message I sent. Rot47: <;F56]52D9:6==@?2GJ]>:=> -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:05 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: teaching a old dog new tricks hello, I recommend grabbing debian or grml to play around with; grml will boot up with software speech, so that should be easy enough. Not sure if that's all you were asking; it was kind of generalized. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron McEwan" <ron.mcewan@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:46 AM Subject: teaching a old dog new tricks > Hi all, > > For the last 22 years I have been a mainframe programmer and then a IBM > DB2 > DBA. I have decided I need to learn something new so have ventured into > the > Unix Oracle world. > > I have a couple of old desktop boxes here at home and would like to get > one > of them up and running on a flavor of Unix with speech. I would greatly > appreciate getting advice on how to do this. > > > In the Journey, > > Ron > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind