Re: [orca-list] Trisquel

[Richard <rickfunes yahoo com>]

Hi William,

Tresquel is an Operating System, not an application.  It uses the libra 
kernel and no proprietary drivers.  I do believe it uses Ubuntu as its 
base and uses Gnome 3 in classic mode with the latest version of Orca 
from master.  The only flavor of Unix I know of that is accessible is 
Solaris 11.  It uses Gnome 2.30 and you have to compile the latest 
version of OrcaXDesktop which can still be found on the gnome ftp 
servers.  Hope this information helped.

On 6/6/2012 04:44, William Gallik wrote:
> I'm interested in purchasing a somewhat older PC (probably 18-24 months
> old) and installing Linux exclusively on that computer. I joined this
> list so I can first get some insights as to issues for blind computer
> users working on a Linux/Orca platform. As such, I have some questions
> of curiosity:
>
> 1) What is Trisquel and what is it for? Is it a Linux/Unix application?
>
> 2) When Daniel related that he's using a Mac Mini with VMWare Fusion,
> I'm assuming that this means that a Linux OS is being emulated through
> the Mac native OS (although I understand the Mac OS kernel is in fact
> Unix). How does that work, to get one of the screen readers to function
> I mean?
>
> I want to migrate to a Linux system because I'm a retired Software
> Engineer from Bell Laboratories and honestly prefer Unix and it's
> various versions to any version of Windows.
>
> ----------------
> Holland's Boy, Bill
> - "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
> - unknown -- but I'm sure any one of a number of us could claim it as
> our own! ;-)
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