Re: [orca-list] What is a good Linux for ORCA?
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>
- To: Orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] What is a good Linux for ORCA?
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:52:34 +0100
This is a commonly asked question, below are some of my suggestions but
I feel distribution choice is a personal one as we all want something
different out of our computers, so in some ways the best way to choose
one distribution is to try a few for yourself.
I personally suggest using a debian based system, either plain debian or
GRML (although GRML may not be the best choice for those totally new to
Linux as you are getting packages from both GRML and Debian and so may
find cases where dependencies can't be resolved). Debian and GRML both
seem to be not affected by some of the audio integration problems which
plague some distributions like ubuntu.
Another Debian based distro you may want to try is the 2.0 releases of
vinux. I know you mentioned vinux but the earlier versions were based on
ubuntu where as the 2.0 releases (currently 2.0alpha2) are based on debian.
Another system I liked what saw for using orca was opensolaris. Now
opensolaris is not strictly linux and so some Linux software will not
run on it (eg. speakup for text consoles, and binary packages like
voxin, ttsynth or any other bundle including viavoice). Also when I
looked at it sound card was certainly more limited than Linux and so
this may also cause a problem. Should those potential problems not
affect you then opensolaris looked very good and is the platform where a
significant part of orca development is done and so integration is good.
Now you seemed to indicate that you may only be doing basic text tasks,
so the question may be raised do you really need orca, would a text
console screen reader (eg. speakup or YASR) be enough? In this case then
GRML may be more suited, or distros like slackware might also be of
interest (I wouldn't recommend slackware for use with orca as gnome
isn't part of the official distribution and so you are relying on third
party packages of gnome and the quality of these do vary).
I haven't mentioned rpm based systems, this is mainly due to me trying
debian and GRML and not feeling the need to look any further, so this
should not be taken as a reflection of their quality and value for being
considered.
As I said, try a few out, the LiveCDs for the distros may help here or
may be you want to even try and set up a virtual machine to install some
in to have a proper try.
Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Jon Mason wrote:
I need a good Linux dirstribution for ORCA. I am only interested in
creating simple text documents and web sites with more of an emphasis
on text than fancy graphics. I tried Vinux but I had problems with
the voice trurning off during live mode. I also do not have the
brains to make Ubuntu work with ORCA.
Is there a Linux distribution that offers ORCA without complications,
bugs, and other headaches?
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