[orca-list] the sonar project is switching distributions

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi all

This is an announcement that the sonar project, myself, Kyle Brouhard, 
and Mark Peveto have decided to switch the distribution we're based on, 
from manjaro to antergos. We will maintain our link to manjaro though, 
we're not severing everything, but we will be based on antergos from now 
on.  Jonathan hasn't gotten back with us so we're not sure if we're 
still going to be called sonar, or if we'll have to change  our name 
since jonathan founded the project originally and controlls the website. 
If we do end up changing names, we'll probably end up going with six 
dots, which is the name of an experimental talking iso image antergos 
started development on but never completed. I'll make sure to keep you 
guys posted. This is largely because of manjaro's choice to go with a qt 
based installer called calamares, which we've repeatedly tried to make 
accessible and failed. The manjaro guys helpfully kept the older 
installer around, but it's gotten unusable and they're unwilling and 
usually unable to fix the bugs, so we have to switch to a distribution 
that has an accessible installer. I want to personally thank the manjaro 
guys for all their help, and make absolutely clear that we are not going 
away from manjaro completely, and I will continue to provide package 
updates to manjaro. This brings me to an issue I've been having with the 
antergos website. I'm not at all sure what exactly is wrong with it, but 
in orca stable, version 3.22.2, I can't seem to access a list of links, 
or tab around the site to get to the links to download a copy of the 
image. I had to boot into windows and use the NVDA screen reader to get 
a copy. Would someone mind looking into this when you have time? This is 
not critical at all. I'll also test out the new rolls that are added as 
soon as I get antergos installed. I'll happily provide a debug log if 
needed.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



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