From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 65.33.76.120.ormondbeach-ubr-a.cfl.rr.com ([65.33.76.120] helo=rmnet ident=foobar) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 168p3f-0005qK-00 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:42:24 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=foobar) by rmnet with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 168p6v-0003HZ-00 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:45:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:45:45 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan Mann X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Lindows preview. In-Reply-To: <01112710102100.19715@lightstar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: That may be true, but Lindows claims to be able to run Windows aplications. I would think that since Jaws is a windows aplication, it would work like any other. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part. On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jason wrote: > OK, here's the deal on "lindows" > It uses "Wine", a "Windows compatability layer" for linux. Wine requires X. > My best guess is that JAWS for windows won't run under Wine. I don't have a > copy to test with myself, but knowing what I do about the way Wine seperates > programs from each other quite a bit more than Windows does I doubt the > needed "common ground" that JAWS depends on would be present. > > Oh yeah, as an aside, the version of Wine that lindows will ship with is > modified slightly; it contains significantly better support for DirectX and > OpenGL than the regular version of Wine. > > On a completely unrelated note, it could be possible to write a version of > Wine that doesn't use X and simply dumps text to a console for speakup, or > whatever else, to read. No, I'm not volunteering for that project :-P > But if anytone happens to want to start a project to hack X and the relevent > toolkit libraries into accessible submission, I'll join, I've even got the > beginnings of a structure worked out for all of it. > > (hmmm.... this e-mail got a lot longer than I intended) > > On Tuesday November 27, 2001 02:35 am, you wrote: > > the same question occurred to me too. > > but it also occurred to me that if lindows is able to run both linux and > > windows programs as suggested, would you not be able to run your > > existing windows screen reader as well as speakup? > > of course not at the same time > > I thought that the idea of lindows was to have a thin translation layer > > for interpreting windows stuff. > > at least that's what I remember from what I've seen about it anyway. > > On > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >