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From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Best distro
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:14:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001901c8e589$b033e390$4200a8c0@tdsportable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080714074212.GA31365@clearwire.net>

uh, we can't wait for it to be "made accessible."
It works ok currently, and I'm running  a speakup kernel--though I haven't 
figured out why as of yet, I just use ssh until I get softsynth set up.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Foreign White Devil" <gaijin@clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: Best distro


> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> someone has some research to do:
>> http://people.debian.org/~shane
>
> Yeah, I have Shane's netinst CD.  It's not the defacto distro,
> and half the time you try running tasksel in the installation, it tries
> to remove the kernel, leaving you with a kernelless system.  I also run
> 'apt-cache search speakup' in a cron job each night, get mailed the
> results, and so far I see nothing but the Shane kernel mentioned so far.
> According to the guys at freenode.net, Lenny will only have the 2.6.24
> kernel, which will likely mean another search for  a modified,
> non-standard install disk.  I won't even go into how old their gnome-orca
> package is.  Don't get me wrong.  I'm running Debian and love it for
> other reasons.  It still does little to support my needs as yet, so I
> can't truthfully recommend it to blind novices until that support
> exists in the stock distro.  Linux is difficult enough without  adding
> blindness and a lack of real support on top of that.    If Lenny is
> released with SspeakUP, then I'll recommend it ahead of every other
> distro out there.
>
> Michael
>
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 slackware 12.1 and ltlk synthesizer Jude DaShiell
 ` Best distro DON.RAIKES
   ` Foreign White Devil
     ` Tyler Littlefield
       ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Tyler Littlefield
           ` Samuel Thibault
           ` Foreign White Devil
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Michael Whapples
         ` Shane's kernels (was: Best distro) John Heim
           ` Shane's kernels Tony Baechler
             ` Foreign White Devil
               ` Daniel Dalton
                 ` Tony Baechler
                   ` Samuel Thibault
                     ` Daniel Dalton
                       ` Samuel Thibault
                         ` Daniel Dalton
                           ` Samuel Thibault
                       ` Foreign White Devil
                         ` Samuel Thibault
                           ` Kristoffer Gustafsson
                             ` Samuel Thibault
                               ` John G. Heim
                             ` Daniel Dalton
                     ` Tony Baechler
                       ` Samuel Thibault
                       ` Daniel Dalton
                       ` Foreign White Devil
                   ` Daniel Dalton
                     ` Samuel Thibault
                 ` Foreign White Devil
       ` Best distro Foreign White Devil
         ` Tyler Littlefield [this message]
       ` Tony Baechler
     ` Samuel Thibault
       ` Foreign White Devil
     ` Tony Baechler
     ` Michael Whapples

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