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Re: [orca-list] what distro for orca?

Sorry, Alex. It looks like your message just came to me. I'll forward it (below) to the Orca List. 

I hope all is well.

On 06/01/2012 02:45 PM, Alex Midence wrote:

Hi.

If you can get someone to set it up for you, I'm rather partial to
Debian Squeeze.  Installing squeeze accessibly right now is a bit of a
pain though.  You have to use the Wheezy netinstall iso or the
business card one and change debconf priorities to like 4 or something
so that it gives you the choice of installing squeeze which is the
stable version.   Barring a friendly neighborhood geek available to do
the honors for you, I also put my vote on Ubuntu.  It's simply
maaah-vluss these days with an accessible installer and its own
desktop which is accessible as well.  And, it's very user-friendly.

Alex M

On 6/1/12, Robert Cole<rkcole72984 gmail com>  wrote:

Wubi is actually the Windows Ubuntu Installer. It allows you to install
Ubuntu along side Windows, and Ubuntu is basically stored in a Windows
swap file. I am not too sure how accessible Wubi is to screen readers
such as JAWS or NVDA because it has been a very long time since I used
Windows. I actually use Linux exclusively here at home.

When I referred to the installer being accessible, I was meaning the
installer which you access through the Ubuntu live medium which is used
to install Ubuntu onto the hard drive either alongside windows or by
replacing Windows with Ubuntu. If you want to test out Ubuntu without
going through this channel (i.e. the installer found on the live CD or
USB flash drive), Wubi still exists and does work well from what I have
heard.

I hope that this has been of some help to you.

On 06/01/2012 01:33 PM, Andrea Roveretto wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions, I would try ubuntu then, and what is the
installation procedure that is accessible? I remember a program under
windows that did the installation in past times, is that still working?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Cole"<rkcole72984 gmail com>
To:<orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] what distro for orca?



I have heard a lot fo great thigns about Trisquel, and I will have to
take a look at it someday soon.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 personally, and it works very well both as a
desktop system and in the area of accessibility also. Both Trisquel
and Ubuntu have completely accessible installers, so the installation
process should not require sighted assistance at all.

Others here on the list use Vinux (an Ubuntu-based distribution which
has many accessibility features up and running out of the box which
would require some configuring in other distributions), so you may
see some recommendation for it as well. I have heard a lot of great
things about it as well.. The best thing to do is to try to get some
live CDs or USB flash drives of these systems, try them out, and see
which one you prefer. We will be here to help along the way.

Take care.

On 06/01/2012 01:15 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:

I'm partial to Trisquel I18N Edition.  http://trisquel.info




On 06/01/2012 04:10 PM, Andrea Roveretto wrote:

Hello to all!
what would be the best choice for a pretty inexpert linux user to
start
with orca now?
Is ubuntu still the best choice?
thanks
Andrea


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Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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orca-list gnome org
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Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp


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orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

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orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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