well, I don't have a lot of choices in what equipment I use as I don't have a spare $1,000 just laying around.While I am waiting on the state to get me some training on jaws for windows (so I can go back into the computer/technical field), I am hopefully going to have a job at the local denny's washing dishes. that may give me a bit more spending capital, but its still going to make me a while to save up anything.
I can tell you from the perspective of a blind and unemployed person, both situations suck and for one like me to be able to acquire and keep a job in *this* economy is nearly impossible. however, thats is not the point of this thread. I don't care if yellow dog is the only game in town. they are too limited in their package selection and orca and a few other needed packages are not even in their repo. so even if I went with them, I'd still have to compile some of what I need and use visual assistance to get it done. no thanks! At least with Ubuntu 10.10, I have a base install and a number of good apps to choose from (including orca). unfortunately, I will still have to do some compiling for my specific machine to mitigate a couple of bugs that appeared in the DBUS subsystem (again, the need for a backend compiler here is a must). -Eric On Dec 25, 2010, at 12:32 PM, gm5729 wrote: >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Have a very Linux x-mas... (keith smith) >> 2. using a cross compiling back end for gcc (Technomage Hawke) >> 3. Re: using a cross compiling back end for gcc (Stephen) >> 4. Re: using a cross compiling back end for gcc (Technomage Hawke) > > > I'm probably going to get a lot of flack on this. But sometimes > planned obselscence just has to run course. PPC went out like late > 90s. And there is only ONE distro I know of still actively or was > actually pursuing PPC of any sort -- Yellow Dog Linux. The audience > just isn't there for the effort to make a distro anymore. > > By at least moving to Intel like MAC and PC's have done you will give > yourself a fair shot at getting support and not having to try to > hobble together something. Goodwill used to sell computers and such > for pretty cheap. I picked up a monitor there, this was CRT days for > $10. That was 5 years ago in PHX. Businesses around tax time want to > spend the rest of their budget so they are likely candidates to get > something on the cheap or even free. > > vp --------------------------------------------------- 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
