Where To Get Ubuntu 7.04? Was: Re: VmWare

Richard Wells richwels at myfreedombox.com
Tue Apr 17 17:08:09 EDT 2007


Thanks Dave! That's exactly what I needed.


Original message:
> Go to the complete download list from the
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/
> page, and if you're in North America there are a number of mirror sites.
> Here are 2 both from the East coast.
> Columbia University
> http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/releases/
> Georgia Tech.
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/

> At 03:45 PM 4/17/2007, you wrote:
>> Hello,

>> I went to the ubuntu site. The only version I found for download was
>> 6.1. Could you kindly direct me to where to get the newer beta version?

>> Thank you so much for this.

>> Original message:
>>> Probably the easiest way to get gnome and orca running is to grab the
>>> latest ubuntu beta (7.04) and install it.  Orca works out of the box
>>> with this distro and most of the applications are accessible.  It even
>>> comes with the latest alpha of firefox3, so you can play with the
>>> accessibility features being developed.
>>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at
>>> 06:58:06PM -0400, Doug Smith wrote:
>>>> Good going.  The more you can do without sighted help, the better.  I
>>>> have to bust all my computing problems without sighted help, which I
>>>> do not have the luxury of anyway.  My wife, though sighted, knows
>>>> nothing about computers and, showing her the messages or whatever,
>>>> would do no more than get her confused.

>>>> Well, I just got the start of one going the other day.  I have decided
>>>> to give gnome and orca a try.  I may or may not regret this.  I would
>>>> like to get some results from others on how you are doing with this
>>>> combination.  I would like to see what's going on.  If you are having
>>>> good or bad results with speech-enabled Linux gui interfaces, please
>>>> let me know so that I will know what to look forward to.



>>>> Thanks




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