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'd like that a whole lot, actually.  Get console speech working in it and
it'll have my vote no questions asked.  

Incidentally, if anyone is interested, I checked and Centos is running gnome
2.28 which isn't even 2.32 (boggle).  Yikes.  Well, you can do an orca
xdesktop install on there from sources and you should be fine.  Squeeze
isn't too far different and I've got a very nice little squeeze virtual
machine with this kind of setup and I'm happy with it.  I was using it for
linux desktop purposes up until april of this year when Ubuntu's 12.04 came
out and was really good.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:30 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Which distribution to switch to from Windows? [was
"Re: A real message with a question"]

Ubuntu Server is already a force when talking about hosting Clouds or
running as clients in public/private Clouds. I do think Ubuntu Server will
be giving RHEL a run for it's money across the enterprise/data center space.

On 28/11/12 20:06, 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
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> > Christopher (CJ)
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