From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail815.megamailservers.com (mail815.carrierinternetsolutions.com [69.49.106.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39C610AFC for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:32:03 -0400 (EDT) X-POP-User: vanye.clearwire.net Received: from gnuked.clearwire.net (69-44-252-62.mrc.clearwire-dns.net [69.44.252.62]) by mail815.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6E7W1JR003925 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:32:03 -0400 Received: from gaijin by gnuked.clearwire.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KIIhI-0008AV-8r for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:42:12 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:42:12 -0700 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Best distro Message-ID: <20080714074212.GA31365@clearwire.net> References: <20080714010540.GA19956@clearwire.net> <000b01c8e54f$9fe98ec0$4200a8c0@tdsportable> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c8e54f$9fe98ec0$4200a8c0@tdsportable> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Foreign White Devil 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 07:32:04 -0000 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