I just hope that one day, Tony can come up with a way of being able to
upgrade to a new version of vinux, without having to completely wipe out the
install and redo it all.
Aiden
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Hernandez" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
I was just on the site and it seems to use Ubuntu. I didn't see anything
about Debion.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Marang
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
According to Tony Sales, who is leading the Vinux development, Debian is
much more stable. He started with Ubuntu with the 1.x versions. Ubuntu
is
very popular and has a lot of hardware support right out of the box. He
was
having much difficulty, however, keeping current with their quickly
changing
baseline. This baseline frequently had problems with certain
applications.
Therefore, their development cycle would not allow him to create a stable
distro. He has done a lot of work configuring this distribution to work
with as much hardware support as possible. Of course, the focus is to
have
accessibility applications installed and ready from the start. With most
distributions, you need to know quite a bit about Linux to get Orca
installed and configured.
I would not want to portray moving to Linux as not having a learning
curve!
Fortunately, there are numerous sources on the web for tutorials at all
levels. If you are curious, give the Live CD a test run! It does not
perform as well as installing to your hard drive, but there is absolutely
risk free! Some people might prefer to use Vinux in a window of your
current Operating system as a Virtual Machine. There is a version setup
for
1.5.2 on his server and will soon have a 2.0 release available as well.
Keep in mind running two Operating Systems at the same time requires quite
a
bit of memory, and hard disk. This not a viable option for older
machines.
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Hernandez" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
Does anyone have any experience with Debion versus Ubuntu? Which is more
stable? Which is the easiest to use with Orca? I know that Ubuntu seems
to
be the latest Linux rage and has really taken quite a foot hold in the
Linux
community. I've been thinking about installing Ubuntu on one of my
machines,
but if Debion has a greater advantage, I'd like to know before I plunge
into
the happy world of learning a whole new operating system. Thanks in
advance.
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kim kelly
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
Thanks, I appreciate your information.
Have a good one.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aiden Gardiner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
Hi,
JAWS will not work what so ever in linux, as it is a windows
application.
Some linux distributions come pre-packaged with a screen reader called
Orca. One distribution like this is called Vinux. It is a distribution
based on another distribution called Debian, and includes the orca
screen
reader, as well as other accessibility features. You can download it
from,
www.vinux.org.uk
Hope this isn't too confusing,
Aiden
----- Original Message -----
From: "kim kelly" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:37 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
Hi list, wondering about lenox and jaws; or does lenox have it's own
screen reader and where can I get the aplication and any screen reading
software.
We have a lap top that is so old and we wanted to learn lenox and put
it
on our lap top.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kim Kelly
Clarkston Washington.
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