----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mr. Jim Vaglia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: Vision impaired software on FreeBSD?
"Mr. Jim Vaglia" wrote:
What assistive technology if any will run on FreeBSD? Is this
what Mac and Voice Over is based on? Many blind people are mostlikely
not interested in paying high cost of Windows Vista. Thanks for
spreading the word among the public if all people with physical
disabilities and impairments are able to use FreeBSD? Totally, blind
from birth, totally in the *dark* on this OS. LOL
One problem: (last I knew), FreeBSD only has a graphical installer,
not Ascii text mode. So you might need somoene else to install it
for you.
(That's of course doing a standard install off the cdrom or floppy
& net; if you happen to be a Unix expert there are ways of installing
using command line only, eg
installing a spare disk on a PC, installing software, moving
disk to new PC: all of that could be done in single line mode
commands, possibly with one of those Ascii to braille
40 char. adapters a friend told me of 2 decades back, so might
be possible but tricky.
Last I heard NetBSD still offers a line mode installer
http://www.netbsd.org
NetBSD has less ported packages than FreeBSD but otherwise is
similar. (well, more similar than eg Linux or Microsoft :-)
Apart from what Salvatore Albanese just mentioned, (hope you got it, not
cc'd)
... It's also possible freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org might have
heard of other hardware. Then again, as NetBSD is more hardware
oriented, those people may have heard of more controllable devices.
PS for anyone wondering, No, I'm no troll for NetBSD, nearly all
my many machines are FreeBSD, but NetBSD does have some advantages
in some places.
--
Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen
http://berklix.com
Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
http://berklix.org/free-software
Didn't receive his responce as not subscribed to the list. While the command
line information, was informative, need info on what graphics assistive
technology, may run in the free BSDenvironment, however at least developers
are aware of the issue?
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