Hello from a new member, and some questions

[John covici]

Look at http://www.grml.org -- it has speakup built into the kernel
and has the ability to use software synthesizer if it can figure out
your sound card.

on Friday 05/25/2007 Matt Barnes(barnes.matt at gmail.com) wrote
 > Oralux has a live cd that will boot and load you into emacspeak. Really nice
 > live cd, but can be a bit intimidating in use. Located here:
 > http://oralux.org/
 > 
 > On 5/25/07, Allison Mervis <allisonfm at gmail.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > Hi all!
 > > My name is Allison, and I am very new to the world of Linux. I read what
 > > seemed like the portions of the FAQ which pertain to my situation, but I
 > > still have some questions.
 > > Right now, I'm using an Acer laptop running Windows XP home SP2. What I
 > > would like to do is burn an image of a version of Linux bundled with a
 > > Screen reader onto A CD, (I think the correct term is live CD) insert it
 > > into the drive, restart my computer, and have Linux boot up talking. I do
 > > not own a hardware synth, and I understand that this limits my options. I
 > > then want to be able to restart the computer, and tell it to boot back up
 > > in
 > > windows. Is such a thing possible? Thanks!
 > > Allison
 > >
 > > _______________________________________________
 > > Blinux-list mailing list
 > > Blinux-list at redhat.com
 > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
 > >
 > Oralux has a live cd that will boot and load you into emacspeak. Really nice live cd, but can be a bit intimidating in use. Located here:<br><a href="http://oralux.org/">http://oralux.org/</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
 > On 5/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Allison Mervis</b> <<a href="mailto:allisonfm at gmail.com">allisonfm at gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
 > Hi all!<br>My name is Allison, and I am very new to the world of Linux. I read what<br>seemed like the portions of the FAQ which pertain to my situation, but I<br>still have some questions.<br>Right now, I'm using an Acer laptop running Windows XP home SP2. What I
 > <br>would like to do is burn an image of a version of Linux bundled with a<br>Screen reader onto A CD, (I think the correct term is live CD) insert it<br>into the drive, restart my computer, and have Linux boot up talking. I do
 > <br>not own a hardware synth, and I understand that this limits my options. I<br>then want to be able to restart the computer, and tell it to boot back up in<br>windows. Is such a thing possible? Thanks!<br>Allison<br><br>
 > _______________________________________________<br>Blinux-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blinux-list at redhat.com">Blinux-list at redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
 > </a><br></blockquote></div><br>
 > _______________________________________________
 > Blinux-list mailing list
 > Blinux-list at redhat.com
 > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com