The way to use Debian testing is to install the stable release
and then switch to the testing release. What I do is after
installing Debian stable, I run the netselect-apt command
to generate a new sources.list for the Debian testing release.
# netselect-apt -n testing
That will generate a sources.list file configured to talk
to your fastest Debian mirror for the testing release. Copy the
new sources.list file to /etc/apt. Then do an "apt-get update"
and "apt-get dist-upgrade".
After you do this, you will be running Debian testing and
your updates will come from the fastest (to you) Debian mirror.
Hello,
I am looking for an accessible distro which allows for rolling releases, which is going to be accessible.
- I attempted to install Fedora Rawhide, but was unable to make progress as I got no speech after boot of the live CD for some reason. I am able to boot prior Fedora versions, but not rawhide. I have never been successful at upgrading to a new release with Fedora without things breaking.
- I attempted to install Debian's testing version, but the installer seemed inaccessible. As soon as I launched the installer I got no speech in the installer window, making me think that Orca can't access it. I tried to enable assistive technologies in the preferences, but as soon as I logged out, I lost speech and couldn't get back in.
- I almost downloaded Solus, but saw a thread with some users saying that its installer isn't accessible as of 4.0
I am not interested in Arch, and am looking for a distro with either Gnome 3 or Mate Desktop, something which offers a rolling release, and will work well with Orca. Thoughts anyone? It seems that the latest batch of distros seem to be less and less accessible, with issues with installers, using different window managers, etc. Is there any work to mitigate this, or are we going to lose access to most of the distros that don't require much tinkering to get working?
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