Re: Solaris 10 released, with accessibility built-in! Also FreeTTS1.2 released.

[Ken Perry <whistler blinksoft com>]

Hmm I would hope that an Accessible solution would also have an 
accessible install.  Not everyone has two systems to use to install 
their OS.  In fact I had hoped to install this at a computer club 
meeting here at the CNIB.

Ken

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alex Snow wrote:

> Your best bet is probably installing it over a serial console. I'm not 
> sure how you do this with solarus but It should be possible.
> On Tue, Mar 
> 01, 2005 at 03:58:47PM -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > One question I did down load solaris 10 and am going to try it out as 
> > soon as I get a free drive which should be rather soon.  I don't see an 
> > accessible install doc anywhere.  does solaris install talk?  If so is 
> > there some place I can go to read how it works?
> > 
> > KenOn Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter 
> > Korn wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Kenny, Ken,
> > > 
> > > Solaris 10 is a shipping UNIX that is based on GNOME 2.6.x with
> > > accessibility components from GNOME 2.8.x, our 1.7 branch of accessible
> > > Mozilla, and lots of other goodies (details in my blog).  But I don't mean
> > > to claim it is "the best access to the GNOME desktop" - if I implied that
> > > anywhere, it wasn't my intention.  It is, to my knowledge, the only
> > > commercially shipping accessible GNOME desktop, which is a different
> > > statement.
> > > 
> > > As Bill Haneman noted, Solaris 10 is (of necessity) behind GNOME HEAD, which
> > > has yet still more bug fixes, improvements, etc. beyond what is in Solaris
> > > 10.
> > > 
> > > Ken - I'm delighted to hear about what will be going into Fedora Core 4. 
> > > The more (accessible UNIX or GNU/Linux systems) the merrier! 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Peter Korn
> > > Sun Accessibility team
> > > 
> > > Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi.  I already run Debian unstable with some packages built from source.
> > > > 
> > > > At the risk of starting a flame war, I like Debian over Redhat/Fedora.
> > > > 
> > > > My interest in Solaris was because of a message on the blinux list from
> > > > Peter Korn stating the best access to the Gnome desktop was with the
> > > > latest release of Solaris.  I would like to try it to see how close my
> > > > access to Gnome in Linux compares with the access to Gnome in Solaris.
> > > > 
> > > >           Kenny
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:34:27AM -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I downloaed it with Widnows XP but know this it is not the best
> > > > > accessiblity in fact Core 4 will ahve the same stuff Solaris 10 has
> > > > > thats Fedora Core 4 in fact if you can upgrade to the beta core 4 in
> > > > > march it will have everything this release of Solaris had.
> > > > >
> > > > > KenOn Tue, 1 Mar
> > > > > 2005, Kenny
> > > > > Hitt wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi.  I'm just wondering if any one has managed to download this using a
> > > > > > Linux system?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I can't seem to regester with elinks 0.10.2 or lynx 2.8.5.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Parts of the site are accessible with Mozilla, but I keep running into
> > > > > > garbage text for some parts of the page.  If I compare results from
> > > > > > elinks and lynx to what I get with Mozilla, maybe I can eventually
> > > > > > figure things out.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since the release info suggests Solaris will provide the best
> > > > > > accessibility to Gnome, I would like to try it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > > >           Kenny
> > > > > >
> > > > > > PS  I understand I will have use either a serial console or a ssh
> > > > > > session to do the install, but that is acceptable as long as I can get
> > > > > > it up and running.
> > > > > >
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