Re: [orca-list] Two questions from a potential switcher

["Aruni Sharma" <libranarsh gmail com>]

Hi, does gentu linux have a live cd with orca like fedora, ubuntu or
opensuse have.
Thanks,
Aruni.

On 11/7/08, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:
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> Yes, Orca is a part of gnome and runs exclusively under gnome.  Both
> Utuntu and Fedora feature gnome as the default desktop and window
> manager.  Thus you shouldn't have to update gnome or any of that.  Now
> some of the latest accessibility enhancements to Orca are in the very
> latest development versions of the programs and would need to be
> updated if you want to test/evaluate those latest changes.  Go to
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more details about later updates and
> proper installation.  For whatever it's worth, it seems like the wiki
> seems to emphosize Ubuntu the most but Orca can also be run on Gentoo
> and Debian as well.  Slackware is another linux distro but it does not
> feature gnome as its default desktop so that distribution would
> require more work to get gnome up and talking.
>
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:44:26PM -0000, James&Nash wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Please forgive my ignorance, but I am still quite confused about all this
>> Linux stuff
>> . So my questions;
>>
>> 1. From waht I've read, Orca only seems to work on Gnome is this correct?
>> If so then I should only be looking at distributions which contain the
>> Gnome desktop. So could anyone please point me in the direction. I have
>> already downloaded and burned to disc the Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 9 Speakup
>> Modified versions. Are there anymore?
>>
>> I have been looking at the Gnome Project. I was wondering if Gnome needed
>> to be updated separated from the Linux version or whether it came as part
>> of the installation and as such was updated with the OS? I have as I have
>> said previously also used Mac OS X and from what i understand it is
>> similar to Linux being Unix based?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> James
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