From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CFa1A-0007vr-00 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:17:20 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (butchb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i97FHAON021609 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:17:10 GMT (envelope-from butchb@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (butchb@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i97FHASb021606 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:17:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: butchb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:17:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Butch Bussen To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20041007001420.GM4711@rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <000c01c4abc9$b968dd10$0600a8c0@atlantis> <20041006193529.GL4711@rednote.net> <20041007001420.GM4711@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: locking up X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:17:26 -0000 I'm not sure what you mean by having accessibility installed. If you mean speech, I don't. Are there other changes I could make to make the box more useable? One thing, for example, when I log in with my terminal program, I don't see a way to distinguish files from folders. I'm still looking for a terminal program if anyone has any ideas. Thanks for the urls, I'll give those a look, and for reasons mentioned in other posts, will likely go with fedora. 73s Butch Bussen wa0vjr On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > You're not going to mess anything up by becoming an ordinary user. But, > perhaps you don't have accessibility installed and adapting that could > take you into a thicket--arguably. > > So, the Fry's box is a good bet. If you want to look at Fedora, look at > the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution: > > http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora > > We have a installation HOWTO there: > > http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/HOWTO_INSTALL.html > > > The idea is that the installation process, as well as the result, is > speech enabled with Speakup. > > One can also, of course, do this with Slack or Debian or Gentoo--but no > installation HOWTO, so you might want to look at ours even if you > install one of the other distributions. > > Butch Bussen writes: >> Actually, I plan on installing a Linux box just to run on its own, but >> this one is operational, and I'm afraid to mess with it for fear of >> breaking something that is working. f y i, i r l p is internet radio >> linking project and is used by ham radio people to tie repeater systems >> and so forth together via the internet. All of the supporting software is >> done in Linux. Some of it, as I understand, is specialized code. >> Actually, I picked up a cheap computer at Fries last week end. It has >> some offbrand of a gui Linux on it I've never heard of, so plan on blowing >> all that away and installing fedora or possibly slackware. I looked >> around slackware's page and didn't really see anything about speech. >> >> Anyhow, that is where I am at the moment. >> 73s >> Butch Bussen >> wa0vjr >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina@freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >