Hi Scott
Solaris is far from inaccessible. It runs Sun's java desktop system,
which is a modified version of Gnome which cooperates with the Orca
screen reader very well. In fact, as Sun is one of the main players
behind the Gnome accessibility effort, Solaris is actually quite
accessible and the latest builds of Opensolaris even have an
accessible installer.
That being said, I've been unable to get it running in either VMWare
or Virtualbox, and I can't for the life of me figure out what the
issue is. If you've got a spare PC, I'd recommend playing with
Opensolaris on that, as it runs quite well on most PCs. Note though
that some hardware support isn't as good as in Linux yet, particularly
in the area of wireless ethernet cards, though this is improving
constantly. So, you may run up against the occasional hitch, depending
on your configuration. I really do like the Solaris operating system
as well as Sun's GUI--it's rock solid and logical.
On Jan 6, 2009, at 14:44, Scott Howell wrote:
I realize this is quite a bit off topic, but it would be neat to
muck about with Solaris under Fusion, but unfortunately it wouldn't
be very accessible other than using Ssh. Of course it would be neat
to do this with the Mac OS as well, but not sure how easy that would
be.
On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Everett, I've only had experience with XP but I'd assume that the
other Windows flavors would be as accessibly installed.
and, I believe Chris and Greg have already answered you in regard
to Ubuntu and Solaris.
HOpe all is well with you / yours! Have a lovely day!…
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:25 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good afternoon,
Does Fusion support any other operating system installs as
accessibly?
Thanks,
Everett
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Hi Everett, yes, a VI user can simply enter their name / Windows
Activation Code and Fusion will essentially take care of the rest.
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Jan 6, 2009, at 5:39 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good morning,
Are you saying that a completely blind user can virtualize
Windows XP on their own, using Voiceover, without needing
assistance with the installation of XP?
Thanks,
Everett
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when you enter your name and your product key it installs
everything for you in the propper place
what you do is you can set up how large you want your windows
hard drive i.e. a section of the macintosh hard drive to be,
and then the program install windows for you and comes up
talking with narrator if you wish when you press the command
key to the left of the space bar, with U.
you can remap some of the keys but in general xp works great
under fusion. there is I believe a trial of the fusion program
On 6 Jan 2009, at 12:46, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good morning William,
Can you please explain what you mean by "with Fusion you can
setup Windows XP automatically"? How automatic is it?
Thanks,
Everett
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Virtualization
fusion works great
there are others though such parallels but I do not know the
usability of parallels since last I heard the interface was
inaccessible to voice over users
with fusion one can set up windows xp automatically and this
is extremel simple to achieve.
The other system I believe is virtual box, which runs under
mac os x now, though I don't believe it is as fully-
featured as Fusion from VMware or parallels
On 6 Jan 2009, at 12:37, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good morning,
Can anyone give a list of the virtualization platforms that
they know to work well under Leopard with Voiceover? I am
used to using VirtualBox under Windows XP.
Thanks,
Everett
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