Re: [orca-list] How you can help

["Alex H." <linuxx64 bashsh gmail com>]

I'm really excited to get involved in the Orca project and
accessibility in general, I think once I mess with a steady Linux
environment long enough I'll start getting the hang of Orca scripting
and all that good stuff.

As a sidenote, is there anybody who knows a decent Python tutorial,
one that really explains what's actually going on? I've looked at
plenty and most just explain in the first two paragraphs, then jump in
to tuples and advanced stuff that has no meaning to a noob like me :).
Any suggestions?

On 3/3/10, trev saunders gmail com <trev saunders gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One question would be how to go about creating such an environment?
> OpenSolaris has that nice feature of boot environments which I imagine
> really fit well. However as I mentioned in the past I have a problem
> with the hardware support in the latest builds (on the laptop X refuses
> to start, on my desktop my better soundcard isn't supported (that's a
> must) although I believe some extrra drivers may come but they are still
> limited compared to options for Linux). Hardware support is possibly one
> of the biggest barriers for opensolaris, compared to Linux opensolaris
> has a long way to go for supporting most computers.
>
> You might be able to make freeBSD and xfs work the same you would for
> solarus.
>
> An alternative may
> be virtual machines, but I have to say I never got them working well,
> they seem to run so slow on my systems I can't see them being practical.
> Has anyone tips for using VMs?
>
> I've found kvm using hardware virtualization to be usably fast for this sort
> of work.  one thing you might want to fiddle with is allowing the vm more
> than kvm's default of 128M of ram which is probably to little for gnome.
>
> Any other suggestions I have missed?
>
> It might be possible to run gnome and orca in a chroot that has a different
> version from the default, but I've never tried.
>
> HTH
> Trev
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