Howdy, If you want to try arch linux in a VM and don't want to take a long time getting things set up, I have a guide/script that wil get it up and running in between 15 to 25 minutes or so depending on what you choose during the installation questions. If interested, the guide is at: http://stormdragon.tk/arch-linux-virtual-machine-creation-script/ The directions cover setting up vmware player, but if you are familiar with another VM software, you can use it instead. HTH Storm On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 12:12:25PM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
Your pal is full of it, my friend. Linux accessibility is way way better these days than it ever has been. I've been using it since 2010 and, it did experience a slight regression when gnome3 came out in like 2011 or so but that's all been long since overcome and far surpassed. As for the old clunky hardware quip, I bought an Asus pc brand spanking new in Dec 2013-Jan 2014, wiped Windows on it and installed the then latest and greatest Ubuntu to use as a server/workstation. I run Gnome, Emacspeak and console on it with their respective "eyes free" solutions and use them fine. It's now my OS of choice at the house since I absolutely loathe, hate, despise and abhor Windows 8 with a purple fiery and incandescent passion even though it's plenty accessible. So, my advice to you is just try it. Grab a pc you aren't using that's relatively new, if you have one, and pop in a CD. These days, it's a lot easier to pick a distro that works right out of the box since you can do a super alt s and get it to talk. If you don't have an unused pc lying around, install Vmware on a windows machine and make yourself a virtual machine of a Linux distro. Probably take you as much as an hour to an hour and a half to get it installed and running. Then, you can see for yourself that the OS is quite accessible and won't have to rely on that person's half-baked assumptions about something he or she clearly knows absolutely nothing about. Regards, Alex M -----Original Message----- From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Keith Hinton Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 1:30 AM To: orca-list Subject: [orca-list] The State Of Linux Accessibility Hi folks, it has been a very long while since I have posted to the Orca mailing list. In fact, more than a year. I was writing in to find out from people who know what they are talking about what the current state of Linux accessibility is with Orca, etc. I was wondering how the major Linux distributions like Fedora, Open Sues, etc are doing with Orca, Speech Dispatcher, and generally over all how is Linux these days? I have avoided Linux for a long while because I have a friend who believes actually, who is utterly convinced that linux accessibility is going backwards. But I don't honestly know for sure if that is so. So, I naturally question him and would like to know from those of you out their who are involved in Linux accessibility generally how do you think Linux is? WouldI be able to run something under Gnome these days like Virtual Box? How does Linux perform with the latest and greatest CPUs, multi core SMP hardware and such from your experiences>? My friend says to me that most of you are using old clunky outdated hardware which is why you don't get Speech Dispatcher or Orca subsystem crashes, etc. But I haven't used Linux in so long that I figure the time is now to actually just come out and ask and see what responses I get. Obviously, I know that everybody will have their own distribution prefferences. But I'm not here to start a war on Ubuntu, vs Fadora, etc. I am trying aside from an OS specific fight to figure out what the current honest state of Linux accessibility is. Is it actually falling back and going backwards and thus dying out? I don't know. Is it worth grabbing something like the latest oh, I don't know, Open Suse, Fadora or similar and giving Orca a spin? So I was hopeing some of you out their might have a better idea. Thanks! All the best, Keith _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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