question

[ari]

Hi,
My sighted friend has been trying to help me get a gnopernicus system
running for me, but nearly every distribution we've tried, we've been having
problems with libraries, festival, etc. We now want to try Ubuntu, but I do
have a few questions:
On Ubuntu version 6, is gnopernicus usable as yet by your average computer
user? I use my computer for everyday tasks, like writting University
assignments, email, web surfing, etc, is the gnopernicus on Ubuntu version 6
up to doing these things? If it isn't, when do you guys estimate that
gnopernicus and orca and Ubuntu will be accessible enough for the lay
person, and will those of us who don't have a braille display be able to
install a Ubuntu using speech? Does Ubuntu also have the built-in Speakup
screen reader? My friend and I tried to install the Fedorra distro which has
been modified by having Speakup built into the kernel, but for some reason
the PC kept on re-booting halfway through the installation, we had to do a
rescue with a mini linux distro, because the re-booting halfway somehow
damaged the boot manager, which is trying to manage a dual-boot system I'm
trying to have with Window and Linux.
Thanks
Ari