Re: [orca-list] Vinux 1.3 Released!

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 24.02.2009 at 21:00:42 Labrador <labrad0r edpnet be> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:02:15PM +0100, Hermann wrote:
> > On 24.02.2009 at 16:32:51 "Bob Tinney" <tinneyb charter net> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > We can all ask for special exceptions and special releases, 
> > > but anything special just removes us further from the mainstream, and it 
> > > allows the mainstream to ignore us even more then they do now.
>
> > I cannot see the specialty of Vinux. What features are there that
> > distract sighted users from working with this distro?
>
> If you don't see it, then boot a Vinux cd without having to do lots of
> things blindly and then tell us if that's not a major difference.
You have not understood what I tried to say:
In my point of view a "special solution" is one that is designed only
for a small community of persons, and, in addition, changes the look and
feel of an OS in a way that makes other people stay away from using it.
I know Vinux and I'm aware of the changes made. But: It _is an Ubuntu,
and I guess it will _always stay an Ubuntu, unless you deside to change
the basic system, let's say to Lenny. But in this case it will _always be
a Lenny.
To give you an example I refer to special OCR programs such as Openbook,
which is based on a usual OCR, but the whole design is aimed at the VI
community.
A similar approach is Adriane: You can leave the interface and go to the
shell, but that's not the intention of the developer: One should stay
with Adriane, because this is viewed as the only efficient way a blind
person can work with Linux. And that's a big difference to Vinux. Don't you think
so?
My intention was support for Vinux, not critisism.
Hermann