Jaws under Linux?

[Kerry Hoath]

Yes vmware 3 under Linux can run jaws and eloquence direct X
not required but I think it works.
msaa surely works and if your machine is fast enough
>1ghz with more than 256 megs ram and you have the money and
sighted help jaws can run insise x but it is not trivial.

Regards, Kerry.
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:54:28PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ann Parsons wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It is a good question if you don't understand that Linux is a totally
> > different operating system from Windows.  JFW is a Windows product.
> > If JFW worked under Linux, we wouldn't have Speakup or Emacspeak.  You
> > can emulate the key map, but you're talking apples and oranges.  I'm
> > not a techie, so I don't know the technical reasons behind this, but
> > the way the screen reader gets info from the screen and so on are
> > different.  I think even the way graphics is handled in Linux is
> > different from the way in which it is handled in Windows.  And this is
> > not to mention the licensing problems that would blossom if JFW users
> > started using Linux.  They wouldn't want to do so.  Why should someone
> > pay $900 for a screen reader when both the operating system, Linux,
> > plus its very workable screen reader Speakup, and/or the output system
> > for Emacs, are free.  Not only are they free, as in free beer, their
> > source code is free as well.    I wouldn't pay a red cent for JFW to
> > run on Linux.  I couldn't afford it, for one.  I couldn't fix it if it
> > broke, for another.  I'd have to wait years before the programmers at
> > Freedom Scientific got their act together to implement any new
> > features or to fix bugs.  Naw, the learning curve is not steep enough
> > to warrant such a thing.
> 
> Woe! slow down there ann.
> What he's wondering is, will jfw work on something like vmware.
> imho, I don't think so.
> For starters, there's the issue of direct x.  I don't think that direct x
> is even handled at all in a windows emulator.  I'll stand to be corrected
> as always.
>  there's also the issue of msaa and whether or not it will work on
> something like vmware.
> I can see his point but I also see the other side of the coin having
> started from scratch with linux.
> but I take your point too.
> why pay through the nose for a crappy piece of software that gets major
> changes about once every whenever they can think of something they want to
> add.
> 
> 
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