Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu versus Open Solaris

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:18:05PM -0800, David Csercsics wrote:
> You can't use brltty on OpenSolaris text consoles unles you run it under
> screen or hack yourself up a virtual console but even then I don't think
> you could use it in the virtual console directly because it needs the
> /dev/vcsa devices which are Linux specific and were added to the kernel
> specifically to support braille. 

I don't think they were added to support braille, but as far as I know,
OpenSolaris doesn't have any equivalents. This is one reason why I don't run
OpenSolaris, or, to be fair, FreeBSD either. Of course, it is possible to set
up another machine running Linux as a serial terminal, or to use ssh all the
time, but the access provided by BRLTTY on a Linux machine is so much better
than these alternatives, precisely due to the clean interface between BRLTTY
and the Linux virtual consoles.

I expect other operating systems will catch up eventually.