Re: [orca-list] Further Advice on Distributions

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Fully free is nice when you know what you are doing.  When you are coming fresh from Windows and just want to 
learn your way around and see if it's a viable choice for you, you need it to work properly while you learn.  
Then, once you have it down packed,  you can make the shift to fully free if you are so inclined.  

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Dave Hunt
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 5:37 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Further Advice on Distributions

Yeh, those distros are all fully-free, which is why I asked about Think Penguin.

Parabola is a fully free version of Arch, but without the talking live disc.  Gnew Sense and Musics are very 
old, and not easily installed with accessibility, though they could be done; I messed with Gnew Sense a bit.  
He could install a Trisquel and have a fully-functional system, though he'd want to do a full upgrade, after 
adding the accessibility-dev ppa to bring Orca and friends up to latest.  The only multimedia formats I can't 
play in Trisquel are things like silverlight and flash; even if I could, I wouldn't.  Since he's getting this 
machine with libre-compatible hardware, the wifi and graphics should work; this might not be the case if we 
were talking about some off-the-shelf computer from an appliance store.  Suggestion:  get the Trisquel live 
medium, boot it, and explore.


Cheers,


Dave





On 08/28/2015 06:25 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Trisquel is the only one that stands out as bding accessible with out hassles. 
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