Re: [orca-list] Orca and current best compatible linux distro and desktop

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
 I can take a stab at it. The currently accessible desktops are gnome,
mate, and unity. Any distro with those desktops are accessible. However,
this is a big one. Not all distros ship with orca installed. For that,
the following are good distros. Sonar has both a gnome and a mate
edition. Ubuntu, either it's unity flavor, which is the default or it's
mate edition, located at http://ubuntu-mate.org. Talking arch if you
like to set up your system manually, vinux which is based on ubuntu but
has speech and braille enabled by default. My last recommendation would
be fedora's workstation edition. You're not lacking for choices, but
these are some of the most popular. There's also trisquel if you want
exclusively free software, it's accessible by default.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/02/2015 03:41 AM, Bart Bunting wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Not meaning to start a flame war just hoping for some objective answers.
>
> I haven't been running orca for some time and am installing a linux
> system tomorrow running orca.
>
> I am trying to decide which distro to go with and even in the case of
> Ubuntu which flavour.
>
> Can anyone offer advice as to which distribution and desktop is
> currently most compatible with orca head.
>
> I am considering Debian Jessie, Debian testing, Ubuntu probably the
> 15.10 release, and if I was to go Ubuntu should I load the default unity
> release or go for a ubuntu-gnome distro?
>
> As I said I'm looking to be able to run the orca master code with a
> desktop that has the best chance of working reasonably well.
>
> Any advice is most welcome.
>
> Kind regards
> Bart