Re: [orca-list] Orca and *nix distros

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey all.

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:17 +1000, Jason White wrote:
> Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com> wrote:
> > I'll shamelessly plug Vinux, though I know there is much work done in
> > other distros.  Open Solaris, in particular, benefits from the long
> > efforts of Sun's old accessibility effort, and Joanie, the Orca lead,
> > develops in Open Solaris.  
>
> Recently switched to Ubuntu, I think.

On the contrary. I do almost everything in OpenSolaris, both development
and personal. I do have a couple environments with Ubuntu set up for:

1. All things WebKit, including Yelp 3.0, because in WebKit there are a
bazillion of gnuisms which make it a pain in the butt to compile in
OpenSolaris.

2. All those cases where one of you reports something wacky and/or
broken in an Ubuntu specific utility and request help interpreting your
debug.out.

3. Regression tests, because my goal is to get other folks (e.g. the
Firefox a11y guys) to start running them. And, let's face it, while I
happen to know that OpenSolaris is the only *nix environment anyone
should use, the rest of y'all are less enlightened. <grins>

As long as there is an OpenSolaris, I will be an OpenSolaris user.

--joanie