Re: [orca-list] Orca Accessible install from live media

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Thanks for the response, Jason.

I have the ISOs for Arch (TalkingArch) and Fedora. What my goal is is to 
set up a desktop system which my family (who do not need any assistive 
technologies) can use, and something which has Orca, Speakup, and 
magnification for myself. I don't have much trouble with the 
command-line (I just would need to learn what to do to get certain 
things such as wireless and such running), but my wife would be 
completely lost in that environment.

As far as an accessible installation goes with Orca, I had a question 
related to that. is there a way to go through the Orca setup, but to not 
have to log out afterwards? I was testing out Linux Mint 12 on a live 
system, but it did not have Orca installed by default (likely due to ISO 
size constraints). I installed it and went through the setup, but when I 
logged out I could not log in again. No user name or password would work 
(such as 'liveuser' with a blank password as Fedora has it), so there 
was no way to log into the system again (I am going to bring this up on 
the Mint Forums).

In any case, I am going to try to learn Speakup as well so that I can 
try out TalkingArch more in-depth. I won't get into that, though, as I 
know there is a Speakup list out there.

Thanks for the information, Jason.

Take care.

On 12/23/2011 01:42 AM, Jason White wrote:
> Robert Cole<rkcole72984 gmail com>  wrote:
>
> > Honestly...I have not been satisfied with Ubuntu or Linux Mint, but
> > I don't really want to "distro hop". I am just looking for some
> > advice on where to go from other visually impaired users.
> Linux Mint is an Ubuntu derivative, as I recall, so you really haven't tried
> anything that differs significantly from Ubuntu (other than Fedora Live).
>
> It's also worth finding out whether the issues you are experiencing are
> generic Linux matters or specific to Ubuntu. I think the differences among
> distributions are often over-stated: most of them offer more or less the same
> core packages, except for such contributions as Ubuntu Unity, which other
> distributions haven't taken up. The way I personally think about it is this:
> it's possible to move from most distributions to a system that meets your
> news, but the path is shorter from some distributions than from others,
> dependingin on what your needs are. That is, the amount of customization work
> required is less if you start from a distribution that's already closer to
> what you want. Also, the distribution's quality and development process are
> important factors - it's always a trade-off between reliability vs. providing
> the latest releases.
>
> Fedora, Debian and Arch Linux (in no particular order) would be worth
> investigating, and there are accessible strategies for installing all of them.
>
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