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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Only thing you can get now with really good support for speakup out of 
the box is Squeeze and then just isntall the latest Orca 3.2 xdesktop 
from source.  It's the best solution if you need console and desktop to 
work.  It still uses pure Alsa, no pulse to speak of unless you go and 
put it in yourself.  Or, you might try a Wheezy kernel and then change 
your sources.list file to Squeeze so before running tasksel to get 
Gnome.  You'd have Gnome 2.32 on top of a modern current kernel and no 
frills reliable sound.  You can even install Emacspeak pretty easily on 
that machine and it works well.  To get stuff like qt apps to work for 
you though, you'll need to get ahold of qt 4.8 and then the qt-at-spi 
bridge using git.  Even then, I doubt it'd work because that machine 
uses the old a11y stack based on Corba and all the new stuff is based on 
DBus.

Of course, when Vinux 4 comes out, everything changes and things get 
very interesting.

Alex M



On 6/1/2012 9:04 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I think speakup is in the kernel, but is not activated in the default 
> setup.  You'd have to mess with pulse audio configs and modules to get 
> it talking.
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> Dave
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> On 06/01/2012 06:15 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> > Do you know if Speakup comes with Ubuntu 12.04? I'm about to get a new
> > box, and the ease of getting and using Speakup will be a key
> > consideration concerning which distro to install. Thanks!
> >
> > AlOn 01/06/12 16:27, Robert Cole wrote:
> > > 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
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> > > > 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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> > > > > 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 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
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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
> _______________________________________________
> 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