Getting started

[Sauro Cesaretti]

Hello Odd,
In fedora core 3 and core 4, you can use :
epic for IRC and gocr as ocr.
I have used epic for irc but I never tried gocr.
Regards
Sauro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Odd Martin Baanrud" <baanrud at online.no>
To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 1:21 AM
Subject: Getting started


> Hello,
>
> I plan to install Linux on a 21 GB harddrive.
> I have some questions, which I hope someone can answer.
>
> What distribution should I use?
> Is it possible to get my Braille Voyager functioning durring the
installation?
> And/or, is it possible to get speech?
> I don't have an external synth, so it must be via the sound card.
>
> Witch programs are the best for:
> * Mail
> * News
> * Web browsing
> * Listening to diffrent kinds of multimedia.
> * IRC
> * Speech
> * Sound recording/editing
> * OCR
> * CD-recording
>
> Also, is the version of Skype for Linux accessible with braille/speech?
> Does it exists a version of MSN for Linux?
>
> Well, this were many questions. I hope someone can answer them, so I
> can have some basic things to start with.
>
> Martin
>
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