Re: [orca-list] accessible Systems that are not Vinux for the beginner?

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Vinux 4 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 which is still supported on both the 
desktop and server platforms. It's true the accessibility stack has been 
held back, but I still use this as my everyday system at home, and the 
desktop interface and accessibility stack become less significant if 
you're talking about server systems.

Vinux 5 is in beta, is based on Ubuntu 14.04, and the accessibility 
stack has been kept up to date and is even ahead of some other distros 
since Ubuntu and Vinux is the platform used by some of the accessibility 
developers. I find the Vinux 5 beta is pretty solid and I use it 
frequently in a virtual machine. I'll be moving my netbook to Vinux 5 
and using the Mate desktop as soon as I get enough free time.

I'm not trying to talk you into using Vinux, but "way out of date" is a 
bit misleading depending on what you're talking about, and the server 
space is even more cautious and slow when moving from one version to the 
next, which is why Canonical, Red Hat and others, have such long support 
plans in place for their server systems.

On 06/20/2015 01:06 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
> Hello,
> I am pretty new to Linux (I have played around with Vinux quite a lot),
> but it is not my main distro and I don't use it a lot.
> I am looking into learning more about servers and getting familiar with
> the Linux environment.
> What system would you recommend? Vinux is way out of date and I would
> like to keep updated as much as possible.
> The systems other people recommend are Ubuntu and Debian, but I've seen
> CentOS also.
> I see Sonar is more updated than Vinux, how would it be for my
> situation? I would be using it at first in a VM, but would hope to move
> it to a partition if I liked it enough.
> Thanks,
>
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> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>
>
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