Re: [orca-list] Sonar 13.10



Manjaro, which is built on Arch, has a very nice accessible software installer that is a clear win for Manjaro vs other distros I've tried, though I haven't tried many lately. The default XFCE desktop has a simple menu structure similar to Gnome 2.0, and Add/Remove Software is in the System menu. I installed the latest Gnome 3 desktop, which looks pretty cool (though I still prefer Unity). It looks very slick with it's 3D effects, and it has a good search capability, and it uses the same outstanding software installer. On the command line, you have pacman, which is equivalent to apt-get, as far as I can tell.

A major difference in Arch and therefore Manjaro is that Arch does not patch very many packages, and prefers to ship packages with minor bugs in them rather than patch them. This is a bit of a pain for general users - the work Debian and Ubuntu put into patching packages does generally improve them. However, it's great for developers, since you don't have to wait for Debian and then Ubuntu to re-patch upstream releases, so you get them sooner. Also, you're a lot closer to the current upstream source if you want to submit a patch. It's also super-easy for developers to share stuff in Arch compared to Debian. For software hacking, I believe Arch derived distros are superior to Debian derived distros. If you just want Linux to work, look no further than Ubuntu, unless you're vision impaired, in which case go for a version of Vinux based on an LTE release. If you just want to hack accessibility code, feel free to join us in Sonar based on Manjaro. Hackers welcome!

Bill

On 10/25/2013 1:08 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
If it is using arch, how can I install additional software?
Is there some command similar to apt-get install, apt-get upgrade etc.
Is there an accessible UI package manager?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 10/25/2013 02:53 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Also, sonar 13.10 doesn't use ubuntu any longer since accessibility
updates were coming too slowly.  Sonar 13.10 now uses arch linux since
arch linux has a rolling release policy.  Beta versions of sonar 13.10
used manjaro as a proof of concept.

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Alex Midence wrote:

Nice.  What version of gnome?  Is it 3.10?  Did you get all the stock
libraries from the gnome3 ppa or is it just whatn Ubuntu has in the main
repositories?  May take for spin this weekend if I get a chance.


Alex M



From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Nadeau
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:28 PM
To: orca-list
Subject: [orca-list] Sonar 13.10


Hello list,

Sonar Gnu/linux 13.10 is out! Sonar is shipping Gnome-shell as the default desktop. Included on the iso is also the gnome-fallback desktop. On this release we are shipping the fallback and shell on the same iso. So there is only one iso to download. There are a couple of new features on Sonar on
this release


Chromium browser is included with chromevox already installed and ready to
go.

There is a new speech server called speech hub.

Speech hub can be used with mary tts

speech-dispatcher is still included and is the default but you can switch to
speech hub.


If you wish to download it the download link can be found here


http://sourceforge.net/projects/sonargnulinux/files/


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