On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:40 +0100, Yannick PLASSIARD wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:59:55AM -0800, hank smith wrote: > > hello I don't know where to ask this one I am wanting to try out the BeOS > > operating system, > > Yes, this is mainly devoted to the GNOME Desktop accessibility > and not for a particular OS...
Hello Hank, Although BeOS is no longer supported, there is a Free Software re-implementation, with a mailing list at: http://www.freelists.org/list/openbeos and a website at: http://haiku-os.org/ There are people on that list who have been using BeOS since the earliest days, who should be able to give you a definitive answer. > > there is a radio automation package called tune > > tracker > > that uses the BeOS operating system, from what I can gather from google it > > appears to be some sort of unix like os. > > is there a screen reader that will work on the BeOS operating system? > > can some one help point me in the write direction? > Assuming what you said is true i.e. BeOS is an unix-like OS, you > may be able to run a BrlTty on it in combination with the "screen" > program (for the console mode). > Try looking on http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/ I couldn't see one in a quick look at http://bebits.com/ but it's worth asking on a BeOS mailing list, like the one I mentioned above. Another option for BeOS / Haiku a11y is using Emacspeak with Xemacs, but it wouldn't give access to most of BeOS's GUI apps. TuneTracker appears to be a package for running your own radio station. There is definitely GNU/Linux-based software to do this that will run on GNOME, I know of one person who has done this recently and will send you his contact details off-list, in case you wish to enquire further. Note that BeOS is Unix-like in it's rough Posix-compliance, and thus it has a shell and can run many *nix apps, but it is a very different beast from GNU and other *nixes, as it is designed so that everything can (and should) be configured through the GUI. Regards, - Richard -- Richard Smedley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sustainable IT Consultant http://m6-it.org/ ``Software Freedom for the Voluntary Sector'' _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
