Re: [orca-list] Do we need "accessible" linux distributions anymore? was Re: Go to upper left and lower right corner in orca.

["D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea arrl net>]

Bill,

Vinux has a command line version based on Debian. ÂIt is vinux 2.0 series.

Unfortunately it breaks if you update it to the latest Debian testing. Â

But it still works 100% and there is no need to update.

C L I as they say always works!

David

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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Bill Dengler <billkd314159 gmail com> wrote:

OK, i've taken a look at sonar in a VM. My understanding of Sonar was that it was significantly different from Ubuntu and not the "install Ubuntu with LXDE and orca talking out of the box" system that it is.
I think I was confusing Sonar and Vinux.
Vinux is a significantly modified version of Ubuntu based on really old versions of Ubuntu that aren't even the latest LTS release!
If Vinux is trying to target blind users with low hardware/memory systems, I think sonar has already done this(really? unity 2d?)
If you really want to support low end hardware, you could build a shell/dialog based menu interface for performing day to day tasks with lynx, alpine, nano/vim/emacs, ttytter, grive, etc.

Bill