Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I can't locate that page any more.  It's possible though that it got 
incorporated into the linux foundation home page since that page has a 
kickstart forum on it though.

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Alex Midence wrote:

> What's the website?  Come on.  That was quite a teaser.
>
> Alex
>
>
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> To: Mike Gorse
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> Subject: Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora
>
> Those scripts were known as kickstart scripts before they were renamed to
> anaconda-ks scripts.  There is a kickstart foundation web page that supports
> kickstart for automating any and all technology architectures it can
> possibly automate.  One time I used a script stored on another web page to
> successfuly install a version of Ubuntu on a machine I have so even that is
> possible.  What I'd like to know though are the details for setting up and
> then invoking a kickstart script from a floppy disk though.  I could have
> lots of fun with that.
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Mike Gorse wrote:
>
> > Probably a lot of sysadmin tasks can be done from a console or over 
> > ssh, though you might need to install a console screen reader yourself 
> > if you wanted that. And RHEL is GNOME-based, so Orca should run on it 
> > as long as it isn't some ancient version of RHEL. I don't know if 
> > installation would be accessible; you might want to look into trying 
> > to automate it if you needed to do installs.
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Thomas Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Alex,
> > >
> > > Yeah, I don't know where they got their data. Its true in the 
> > > desktop/PC market Ubuntu is one of the leading distributions for 
> > > home users. However, for large scale networks, enterprise solutions, 
> > > I believe Red Hat Enterprise is definitely the recognized leader. On 
> > > almost every server I've encountered or happen to use in the last 
> > > five years or so are almost exclusively Red Hat Enterprise. In fact, 
> > > the server I use for my website etc is running REL on it although 
> > > since I am not the administrator of that system my use is strictly 
> > > as a user via ssh connection rather than as an admin.
> > >
> > > However, like you said if you look on monster.com or some place for 
> > > jobs most of the time they want someone with experience on REL. I 
> > > just looked into a job a year back which was for AOL. They wanted 
> > > someone with experience with Red Hat Enterprise, Java programming, 
> > > and experience with MySQL databases. I certainly was qualified for 
> > > the Java and MySQL part of the application, but as for Red Hat 
> > > Enterprise I don't know that much about it. Especially, the degree 
> > > of accessibility it does or does not currently have for VI Linux users.
> > > My guess is its probably pretty low on their list of priorities.
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> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to
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