From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5C810B39 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:15:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tdsportable (75-171-198-241.hlrn.qwest.net [75.171.198.241]) by spaceymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A235B195571 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001901c8e589$b033e390$4200a8c0@tdsportable> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20080714010540.GA19956@clearwire.net><000b01c8e54f$9fe98ec0$4200a8c0@tdsportable> <20080714074212.GA31365@clearwire.net> Subject: Re: Best distro Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:14:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:15:40 -0000 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. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler@tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Foreign White Devil" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3263 (20080711) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >