Hi there, playing catch up with these. You asked... On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
On 15/12/15 12:04 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Oh, okay. So, why Squeeze then?
Well, prior to joining here and starting this exchange, I had several reasons, some of which remain. for one very important reason, I have a full set of Squeeze DVD images sitting in this space. I think I said I am on the Debian discussion list. A..couple of years ago or so, one of their members who claimed to understand Linux sent me a hard drive containing what was supposed to be enough Debian with which to start. I had a computer built for the drive, one of my engineer friends maintains my primary computers, even though Linux is not his thing. When we put the drive in, Debian recognize everything, but there is no way to access the internet. i later ran tests with the help of CNIB. Since I realize I am going to need knowledgeable greater sighted and in person help, and since asking for long distance help seems counter productive, I did not want to start from scratch unless absolutely needful. I have been told the lack of internet might be repaired, the programs i require for composition already here etc, and i want to be sure I can provide enough things to make any other help I require easy for someone...it is the least I can do. Then there is the question of if I want to totally forget ever using the box directly. My main synthesizer will not work to be sure. however there are other external hardware ones that do, they run with USB which is one of two reasons i do not desire a USB based keyboard. Still, it seems speech will be an issue, directly, at least outside of squeeze.
From what you provided in other posts though Latency is a far far greater issue. Music comes first for this machine. If a low latency kernel is required, then I must plan for ssh telnet to have screen reader access. If I cannot find a pro audio package plus a latency solution for an earlier kernel, then again speech must be via ssh TELNET and a later edition of Linux will be used. That will mean for me finding help on the installation however. Make more sense? Harmoniously, Kare