you might want to investigate slax.org its a portable/leaner slackware.. maybe an idea..
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I forgot you were trying this on a Power PC (PCP). The arch stuff > is mainly Intel style processors as far as I can tell. On those > platforms, Arch is great. > > Another thought concerning machines with so little memory, I would try > and stick to the native text console as much as possible as that will > work on machines with as little as 32 MB of memory. I have an old > laptop here with just that and the text console works fine but I > wouldn't think for a minute of attempting to run gnome on that. > That's one deal where Slackware really shines; it can run on almost a > shoe string. > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:26:37AM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote: >> Steve, >> last I heard, there wasn't a lot of support in arch for PPC and virtually >> nothing for the blind ppc user in particular. I went ubuntu 10.10 PPC here. >> it took getting some assistance via Skype (and my webcam) with the guy on >> the far end being my eyes, but we got it up and working with orca. there are >> still a few issues with that machine. after a random amount of time, the >> udisks-daemon would go into runaway and the machine would become >> increasingly unresponsive (causing orca to get equally as unresponsive). >> doing a sudo reboot under those conditions is very trying. I have to have >> faith that I typed in the command properly and then wait for the beep >> indicating success. >> >> I am not sure what causes this problem. I have mitigated it somewhat by use >> of the noacpi flag in the yaboot.conf file. it still happens, only it takes >> a little longer. I will also have to look up what commands I have on startup >> that I can dispense with (120 processes on a machine with 384 MB of ram is a >> bit much). >> >> anyway, its up and running (mostly). >> >> -Eric >> >> On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: >> >> > I'm a big fan of Arch Linux. Go to www.archlinux.org and look around >> > in the wiki for archlinux for the blind or something like that. Chris >> > Brannon has developed a talking boot image with speech at the text >> > console. From there, one can install gnome, gnome-extra to get Orca >> > going. Sorry, I don't have the exact URL right now but can look this >> > up later on tomorrow if you're more interested. >> > >> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:23:06AM -0700, Stephen wrote: >> >> Not sure how it will go for install bit gentoo has a massive application >> >> repo and a solid pox build. And since they build from source its very >> >> cross >> >> arch friendly. >> >> >> >> I would also look at the recent Ubuntu as they might have some easy things >> >> built >> >> On Oct 22, 2010 11:33 PM, "Technomage Hawke" <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> well, >> >>> I finally got with the program and went imap on my mac. this means I >> >>> don't >> >> need to store any messages locally.it also means I can check my mail from >> >> other locations using my powerbook. >> >>> >> >>> speaking of which, I may need some sighted help getting a workable image >> >> for a talking linux on that machine. Adriane knoppix looks good, except >> >> all >> >> my testing lead to crashes under a VM on the big mac. >> >>> >> >>> this could be a problem in virtualbox. >> >>> >> >>> also, I think I am going to take my old windows machine, and convert it >> >> over to linux. I was waiting for Voc Rehab to get off their collective >> >> butts >> >> and do something about getting me some adaptive technology. but it looks >> >> like its going to take a while. besides adriane knoppix, any other good >> >> talking linux distress anyone can think of? I keep getting too many >> >> useless >> >> hits in google and its maddeningly slow using speech. >> >>> >> >>> -Eric >> >>> >> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. 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