Re: [orca-list] Orca and Arch again

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Bill, you've got me thinking as well, although I think some of the 
thoughts have been building up in me for sometime now.

I think this covers so much of my discomfort with Linux, what actually 
is it? WARNING: I have been reading some open university material which 
actually touched on some of this, I will try and keep the intellectual 
talk out. By what I have written I mean the whole idea of Linux is 
freedom to choose, but its exactly that which makes it so hard to work 
with as what works on one distro may not work on another because they 
had another idea of how to do it. So I can see why you would suggest if 
people don't want to deal with low level accessibility issues then they 
may be best to group behind one big distro sorting that out, but doesn't 
that sort of defeat the idea of Linux?

OK, may be I'm a bit unusual in my ideas eg. I very much like OSS4 for 
audio, I quite like some of the features of OpenSolaris except I have 
some critical hardware it doesn't support, try and build up the system, 
etc, plenty of things which possibly go against some of the mainstream 
distros.

As a note, on debian and Arch I don't seem to have hit some of these 
really basic accessibility issues people seem to find. I would possibly 
say there are some distros I would put in the hall of shame for how well 
accessibility works on them (I won't name them but some are quite big 
names from very popular companies in the Linux world).

Michael Whapples
On 05/10/2010 10:42 PM, Bill Cox wrote:
> Hi, Michael.  Once again you've made me stop and think about why I'm
> so passionate about developing in Vinux, because you have a valid
> point.  I wrote a long winded letter explaining why I think Vinux is a
> good idea, and posted it to the Vinux forum:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/vinux-development/browse_thread/thread/bedb2f83bb20ec17
>
> Bill
>