Re: linux 4.0

[jruby pressenter com]

On 1997-01-23 raman Adobe COM said to jruby pressenter com
   >Your frustration is understandable; you need to go into this with
   >the realization that
   >1) It's a new environment.

yes and I don't want to drown.  since I only have one machine for now I
guess I'm at a stand still until a doubletalk driver comes out.  So for now
I guess I'll just use win 95 and dos untill such time as the driver gets
written or I get a decktalk, one of the two. :)
 :)
   >2) It's mostly free; this means that you'll have to do some legwork
   >yourself in learning things  --though all the tools are well
   >documented you'll get no glossy glitzy brochure screaming out all
   >the wonderful things you can do-- you'll discover the things that
   >are useful to you pretty much as you go along

I agree 100% and to think I can't even see the  darn things so why pay for
them. :)  I think I would learn a lot because I love installing new stuff
and trying new things, so the above sound like it would be great fun and a
wonderful learning experience.

   >3) The end result you achieve with Linux may be far better than
   >what you achieve on msdog or win95;
   >however the path will often be different.

    >4) The tools you use on linux will be different from what you use
   >on Dos; after all you never sent MicroSoft mail asking how you
   >could run lilo on Win95; so why do you expect MS word and other
   >windows specific solutions on Linux?

this I did not expect: I understand linux is different and there for will
have differences all the way down the chain so to speak.

   >5) Your message requesting someone to write a doubletalk driver did
   >make it to this list.

   Guess I mist it.

thanks to all for your help, but for now I'llhave to go with dos/win 95
untill I get a decktalk or a double talk driver is available for
imacsspeak.

Thanks again and I'll go back to lurking in the background in hopes that
one day more speach drivers will be written.
I know the games etc that my wife like to use will work for now...
Hopefully say day I can go on the linux adventure..


Again thanks to all for all the help..