Re: [orca-list] Is Orca compatible with Fedora

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I think Open Indiana is a fork of Open Solaris.  I remember seeing posts on
here saying it worked on there.  Also, Debian has a FreeBSD port.  I think
it uses gnome as the default desktop in which case, Orca should work on it.
I don't have any personal experience with it, however, so this is pure
conjecture.  Honestly though, if someone wants to learn Unix, I imagine a
free shell account would be the best way.  Here's a service that appears to
fit the bill:

http://sdf.lonestar.org/

It runs on NetBsd.  Then, there's shellmix.com tha truns FreeBSD.  You'd get
a shell log in to a unix environment.

Alex M

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Jason
White
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 3:30 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Is Orca compatible with Fedora

Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> It is indeed important to make the distinction.  Having said that, I 
> have heard that it is quite easy for someone who knows Linux to 
> translate their knowledge to the Unix world.  I have also heard that 
> it is not as easy for a Unix person to move to Linux though for some 
> reason.  You could probably do quite a bit towards learning Unix using 
> Linux by installing the Korn shell since that is Unix's default.  Linux
uses Bash or ZSH.

They all support the POSIX shell standard, as far as I know, so unless
you're writing complex scripts you probably won't notice any difference.

Orca used to run under Solaris, the only UNIX variant ever supported. I
don't know whether that's still the case; I doubt that anyone has tested it
for a long time now.

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