Short answer: Wait for Ubuntu 10.4 LTE. Unless you're just too curious. Having gotten Jaunty working for you means you're good at hacking the system a bit. I think Karmic is similar in effort as Jaunty, but everyone's experience seems to vary a lot. The thing is, I don't see any major draw for Karmic over Jaunty for blind/VI users who already have a stable system working well with Orca.
Ubuntu 10.4 (release April next year), will be a long-term-support edition, which means the focus is on stability. A ton of stuff that's broken in Karmic, like resume from suspend, video driver problems, etc, will be fixed in the next release. That said, I just couldn't help myself, and I went ahead and upgraded my Jaunty x64 laptop. My effort to just "dist-upgrade" failed pretty badly, but my system was pretty heavily modified already. The clean install worked, except for the noted problems with pulseaudio (a big PITA, frankly). If you're like me, you'll go through a similar process, simply because we're so damed curious about what's in the latest and greatest distro. I like it. The Software Center is interesting, with fascinating potential. I'm waiting for Canonical to allow paid-applications on it, which would send a real jolt through the linux world, one we need IMO. Some minor goobers in Jaunty are cleaned up. Shutdown speed is amazing, and boot isn't bad. VPN in Network Manager is currently broken for me, but use to work, and I use gnome-alsa-mixer since the volume control is broken (since you have to remove pulseaudio). Now and then the system crashes when I restart X, like when I log out. The speech performance isn't bad with alsa and speech-dispatcher. I use voxin for the voice, so I don't know if espeak is still causing speech-dispatcher crashes. It works well with voxin. Bill On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Dave Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Given all the trouble with sound in Karmic, especially as regards Orca > and speech, is there anything to recommend upgrading from a stable > Jaunty system? Are there enough other improvements to justify all the > effort needed in order to overcome the sound issues? If I decide that > an upgrade is worth the trouble, what think you of my doing an in-place > upgrade, rather than a clean re-install? > > > Thanks for your thought, > > > Dave H. > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
