Re: [orca-list] Which distro for Orca 3.2 and audio and console

[bigd <bigd vi guy gmail com>]

Hi,
Gentoo sounds like a great distro for you then, if you don't mind waiting for packages to compile. It's got 
all the stuff you mentioned, and is designed to be customized 
and not bloat your system. The install cd comes with speakup and is about 120 or so mb, and works with 
software speech. Also, there's a handbook that goes through an entire 
install, and practically holds your hand through it. I've been using it for almost a year now, and am very 
happy with it.

Thanks and HTH,
KJ4UFX
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:42:23PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>    I'm really looking for Orca 3.2 now. I'm a Debian user so far and I have 
> liked the distro very much. Still I am considering to switch now after all. 
> But I have a few constraints:
> 1. Good console support with a nice repository of console apps (alpine, 
> elinks, vim, lynx, all the scripting tools like mmv gawk,..., unrtf, wv-tools 
> for converting docs, pdfto*... and more). Oh and a text-based way to easily 
> install packages like aptitude.
>
> 2. I'm used to configuring a good deal of my system by hand, so this should 
> not be discouraged.
>
> 3. Same goes for self-compiled kernels.
>
> 4. And a natural access to root logins. I've heard, that it was by default 
> disapproved of in some distros, though snce they were mainly GUI at the time, 
> I didn't pay too close attention.
>
> 5. a distro sensibly running without the need of a gUI environment or special 
> GUI-daemons and what-not running in the background all the time.
>
>    It would of course be even better, if I could use my currently running 
> system to update to the new distro, but I'm sure I'll manage somehow. So this 
> would just be an added bonus.
>    Ok, this is rather a lot I might be asking and probably impossible. I 
> haven't delved into al the distros, since these days there seem to be so 
> many. So I'm rather relying on a few good experiences for a start to minimise 
> the possible list of suspects. Perhaps you can still recommend a few things, 
> that meet as many as possible of the features listed above and just tel me, 
> where they don't meet the desired features. Then I can investigate, which of 
> them are easily fixeable or not. :-)
>    Thank you all for reading thus far!
>    Kindest regards
>             Julien
>
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