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



Either vinux or sonar-classic for one reason.  If a good disk gets on a 
system, accessibility configuration so far as orca is concerned has 
already been done.  I can do stuff with command line to configure 
certain aspects of gnome if necessary though windows users unless 
they've already been using activestate perl will probably have 
difficulties with this at first.

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Alex Midence wrote:

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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The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
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