Re: [orca-list] Self Introduction

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I suppose its that I need to learn about writing stuff using a wiki,
probably once I have done that it might be a lot quicker for me to add
this information. Annoyingly for me I do know some basic html, and I
thought wikis were meant to make it easier to write stuff online, but
the initial looks at the documentation for writing a wiki page looks
more complicated, but may be that's my structured mind liking the
structure and order of things like html.

From
Michael Whapples
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 11:29 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Thanks Michael!  If you find time to write it up, it would be great. 
> The work you've been doing with the performance enhancement testing for 
> Firefox (including uncommitted patches, providing debug.outs, and 
> creating HTML documents for bug reproduction) has been way awesome and 
> the team greatly appreciates it.
>
> Will
>
> Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I found no difficulty with setting up gnome on slackware 12.0 with
> > gnome-slacky (www.slacky.eu). I can't comment on droplinegnome as slacky
> > was more recent (although I think from another message someone sent
> > dropline has now made a 2.20.2 release, but slacky had a 2.20.1 and a
> > 2.20.2 release).
> >
> > Gnome slacky was simple to install, I don't know how this compares to
> > dropline, but for slacky you download the CD image from:
> > http://slacky.uglyplace.org/repository/gnomeslk/
> > Burn the CD image to disc and then run the install.sh script in the base
> > directory.
> >
> > There are other packages available in the slacky repository,
> > sub-directories of http://slacky.uglyplace.org/repository/.
> >
> > Will, may be I should document this in the orca wiki, its just finding
> > the time to do so.
> >
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:21 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Hi Steve:
> > >
> > > Welcome!  The list has been quiet since many of us were recharging our 
> > > batteries over the winter break.  I came back to over 1000 e-mail 
> > > messages and I'm working my way through them.
> > >
> > > For how you can help?  Well...if you want to work on ways to 
> > > troubleshoot and set up accessibility (and Orca) on Slackware, that 
> > > would be awesome.  You will have a home at 
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.  :-)
> > >
> > > In any case, welcome again and hope to see you around,
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > > Hi, I thought I would introduce myself and let this message double as
> > > > a quick test to see if I got subscribed all right; It's been silent
> > > > since I joined earlier today.
> > > >
> > > > I'm brand new to Orca and am so far, just trying the Ubuntu Live 7.10
> > > > CD to kick the tires so to speak.  I then need to make some room on my
> > > > hard drive for the extra software to install and decide whether to
> > > > stick with my current Slackware 12 distro or take a plunge and go with
> > > > Debian and get gnome packaged in along witheverything else.  I
> > > > understand DropLine is a good way to go to get gnome for Slackware and
> > > > I think there was another option as well.  I've always liked Slackware
> > > > for it's ease of finding and manipulating of config files under the
> > > > BSD style of configs so I hope installing gnome from packages wouldn't
> > > > be too hard for that.  If it tends to be problematic for some, then
> > > > maybe I'd be better off going with something like Debian or Ubuntu.
> > > > At least those two have identical package management and dependancy
> > > > tracking; that's one thing Slackware isn't so good at.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I'm interested in whatever ideas some folks might express here
> > > > to kind of nudge me in a good way to go.  I realize the ultimate
> > > > decision is up to me but I wouldn't mind some input before taking the
> > > > final jump.
> > > >
> > > > Happy New year.
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