Requested: Tips for Getting Started With Linux

[Janina Sajka]

Suggest you use the Speakup Modified Fedora 2 rather than the default packages. Please see:

http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/HOWTO_INSTALL.html

for all kinds of references to getting started.

Jeremiah Z. Rogers writes:
> Good day, everyone. I'm a very capable Windows and DOS user and
> troubleshooter, who is looking for a new challenge. I'm thinking of
> installing Linux, and as I write this email, am downloading Fedora Core II.
> I've never installed, or even used, Linux at all. I have a number of
> questions with which anyone may be able to help, so here goes.
> 
> 1. What're some steps which you found helpful as you went from another OS to
> Linux?
> 2. What are the most popular screen-reading packages for Linux, specifically
> Fedora II?
> 3. Are there any significant positives to running another version of Linux
> than Core II, or are there any significant disadvantages to running Core II?
> 4. What information do I need to firmly grasp in order to install the OS to
> begin experimenting with it?
> 5. What are any other tips or answers you might have which would be helpful?
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any responses which you provide.
> Jeremiah Z. Rogers, jzr at intrex.net
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
	Free Standards Group (FSG)

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