Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu versus Open Solaris

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

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,
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> > 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
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