Re: [orca-list] Distro recommendations

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Eric,

Th ISO you downloaded is obsolete.

Links in my answer to your other message

Best regards,

Didier

Le 15/03/2021 à 11:03, Eric Oyen a écrit :
> Um, this has not been my recent experience.
>
> I tried tonight to install Slint and got no speech at all from startup. I tried reading the associated pages 
> online on my Mac here to see if I missed anything. Unfortunately, the documentation online only coveres 
> installation when using a hardware synth or a braille display device (neither of which is available to me 
> just now).
>
> So, how do I get around this and tell the installer that I am using the built-in sound device as a speech 
> synth?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric
>
>
> > On Mar 15, 2021, at 2:31 AM, Didier Spaier via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Reece,
> >
> > I maintain Slint, so maybe my opinion is slightly biased ;)
> >
> > this caveat out of the way, Slint is fully accessible from installation to
> > usage with braille and speech, on the console as in graphical environments
> > including Mate and you won't loss speech or braille when switching back
> > and forth between Mate and console. We maintain the a11y stack up to date,
> > currently including orca-40.beta, speech-dispatcher-0.10.2, brltty-6.3, up
> > to date TTS engines with associated voices and the console screen readers
> > espeakup, speechd-up and fenrir.
> >
> > Slint is also as far as I know is the only Linux distribution providing
> > full disk encryption out of the box, if:
> > 1) The drive where you install it is dedicated to Slint.
> > 2) You use the Auto mode of installation.
> > 3) When asked, you accept to have the drive encrypted.
> > 4) You type the passhrase twice during installation, of course.
> >
> > Then GRUB will ask the LUKS passphrase just before displaying the boot menu.
> > The root partition and optionally an optional additional partition will be
> > encrypted (in Auto mode /home and /boot are directories inside /, not
> > separate partitions, and no need for LVM on top of the cake.)
> >
> > Lightweight? It depends. if you mean snappy or responsive the answer is yes.
> > For instance you will get swap on zram installed, which allows to almost
> > never use the swap file on hard drive or SSD.
> >
> > If you mean very few installed software then sorry, the answer is no, Slint
> > ships a lot of software out of the box, only KDE being optional. The
> > installed software will only take space on disk (around 18G in total as of
> > now), but not get in your way or slow down the computer at all, however, if
> > having as few software installed by default as possible is a must for you
> > Slint is not what you are looking for.
> >
> > If you have more questions, feel free to drop by the channel #slint on
> > irc.freenode.net or send an email with the subject subscribe to
> > slint-request freelists org.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Didier
> >
> >
> > Le 14/03/2021 à 23:57, Reece O'Bryan via orca-list a écrit :
> > > Can anyone give me some recommendations as for a distro that lightweight and accessible?
> > > Secure and privacy-minded are a major plus. I would love to have full disc encryption out of the box, 
> > > but.could use veracrypt or luks if need. I don’t need a distro bloated and would be fine with something 
> > > extremely lightweight that I can add what i need on top of it.
> > > Off topic.. Anyone purchased from System76 or Pureism?
> > > Thank you,
> > > -Reece O’Bryan
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