Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu versus Open Solaris

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

With respect to the audio concerns, you might might interested in this 
discussion:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=83937&tstart=15

In particular:

"The short version is that increased sound device support is coming 
soon. The OSS drivers written by 4Front are in the process of being 
reworked and integrated into OpenSolaris, so in the future, the 
SoundBlaster Live! should be supported out of the box."

I don't know the exact details behind this.  If you'd like to learn more 
or have more questions/input, it would probably be a good thing to 
follow up on the thread above.

Hope this helps,

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> The main differences as far as accessibility goes are:
> * OpenSolaris the audio mixing issues encountered by some users (ubuntu 
> I believe has some straight out of the box) don't seem to exist.
> * OpenSolaris doesn't support as many sound cards as Linux so whilst 
> OpenSolaris I feel works better with the audio, poorly working audio is 
> better than no audio so Linux is better for variety of hardware. Use the 
> Solaris device detection tool if you are in doubt whether openSolaris 
> supports your sound card.
> * OpenSolaris cannot run pre-built Linux binary files, so this does 
> remove some commercial synth choices (IBMtts comes to mind). Espeak does 
> work on OpenSolaris and is the default synth.
> * As openSolaris is not Linux (doesn't run the Linux kernel) if you want 
> the speakup screen reader for the text consoles then OpenSolaris will 
> not do it.
>
> Other than that, things are very much a like as gnome is used for the 
> desktop and this is the same on different platforms.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> On 23/12/42 20:59, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> > <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Good 
> > afternoon,
> >
> > > From an accessibility perspective is there a strong argument 
> > > supporting the 
> > use of Orca with Ubuntu versus OpenSolaris?
> >
> > I would take into account ease of installation, configuration and use.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Everett
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > </div>
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