From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from speech.braille.uwo.ca (speech.braille.uwo.ca [129.100.249.132]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDD41EF4C5 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:36:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) id E6703C1A170; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:35:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C13C1A16F for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:35:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqWuQ-0005ls-TM for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:35:38 +0100 Received: from jdc.jasonjgw.net ([59.167.198.218]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:35:38 +0100 Received: from jason by jdc.jasonjgw.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:35:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Jason White Subject: Re: Questions about new Linux setups Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <429268D32D644BB39737AFA53ABA93F3@Boe> <50E465A3.1080905@gmail.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jdc.jasonjgw.net X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: jason@jdc.jasonjgw.net (Jason White) X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:36:14 -0000 Kyle wrote: >I run Arch here, and I love it. It starts out in the command line >environment, and you can add only what you want to it, including full >GNOME if you want. The Pacman packaging system is quite powerful, and >few packages actually need to be built from source manually. I am considering Arch as an option whenever my next machine is purchased, or maybe I'll just install it in a vm at some point. It's also one of the few distributions (with debian and derivatives being the other notable cases) that has an accessible installation process supporting both speech and braille if I remember correctly. The accessible installer unfortunately isn't the default yet, whereas in Debian it most certainly is - no separate "accessible" image required. A slightly annoying aspect of Arch, based on what I've read, is that it doesn't support separate packages for debug symbols. If you need a stack trace to report a bug, you'll have to rebuild the relevant package with a debug flag. In general, though, I think Arch is the most interesting distribution to have emerged in the last decade.