Re: [orca-list] Vibuntu the most accessible Ubuntu Linux live cd

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Slackware was the first commercial Linux and did provide on one of those 
CD's an html file tree called slackbook which had lots of documentation in 
it for the system.  To this day unfortunately slackbook is not a 
recommended package for installation by the slackware install program. 
Short of both of those however, typing man man <cr> at that bash prompt 
and reading would have got you a little help.  Also typing info info <cr> 
at that bash prompt would have got you more help.  The problems with linux 
are the bsd learn utility isn't available in Linux package form for 
installation yet and the vms help command isn't yet available either. 
When I first learned vms and Unix it wasn't on a linux box and that BSD 
learn utility changed my diapers many a time.  Anyone who gets learn into 
a linux package and gets it all to work then goes through just one of the 
computer assisted instructional tutorials will immediately realize why I 
wrote that last sentence.  True slackware put a long email message in 
root's account but you had to know to enter the mail command while 
hopefully completely off line for security reasons while reading that 
message and that's something a completely new user wouldn't necessarily 
know about.  A lug could have been helpful, but sighted people more 
frequently attend those meetings than blind people so that's another 
possible source of help denied.  These days podcasts on Linux are 
available as well as several main menu programs on acbradio.org but these 
are more recent events than what was available in our past.