Re: [orca-list] Which distribution to switch to from Windows? [was "Re: A real message with a question"]

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I'm with Christopher on this one.  Ubuntu is the way to go.  You can
do all sorts of things for office work with it, you can have a modern
a11y experience and hardware support is excellent.  If all you wanted
was to do work with servers, I would recommend Debian because you have
a stable environment and speech in the console/command line.  Why do
you like Centos so much?  You should see if whatever packages it comes
with can be gotten on Ubuntu or not.  I'd be surprised if they weren't
there since I get the feeling Ubuntu will some day give Red Hat a run
for its money in enterprise environments.

Alex M

On 11/28/12, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com> wrote:
> Why wouldn't you consider Ubuntu? I think Ubuntu 12.04 LTS would be
> close to what you're looking for.
>
> On 28/11/12 18:48, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I am thinking of switching from Windows to Linux for ofgice work. So I
> > want to avoid the bleeding edge, but I do want reasonably up-to-date
> > accessibility features and desktop. I'll be using LibreOffice. What
> > would be a good compromise between Ubuntu and CentOS?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:23:07PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > > Hello John,
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/28/12, John J. Boyer <john boyer abilitiessoft com> wrote:
> > > > My question is whether anyone has had experience with Orca on CentOS
> > > > 6.3.
> > >
> > > Well, is there something specific you want to know? About the only
> > > thing I can tell you is because CentOS is largely using Enterprise
> > > packages like Red Hat Enterprise the accessibility stack is extremely
> > > old. From what I can tell CentOS 6.3 is still using Gnome 2.x and
> > > at-spi 1.x, and they are way behind in terms of modern Orca
> > > dependencies etc. This isn't unusual for Enterprise Linux as every
> > > Enterprise system I've seen over the last couple of years is way
> > > behind in terms of VI access packages where distributions like Ubuntu
> > > try to stay on the bleeding edge of things.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
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