Best distro

[Tyler Littlefield]

uh, we can't wait for it to be "made accessible."
It works ok currently, and I'm running  a speakup kernel--though I haven't 
figured out why as of yet, I just use ssh until I get softsynth set up.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Foreign White Devil" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: Best distro


> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> someone has some research to do:
>> http://people.debian.org/~shane
>
> Yeah, I have Shane's netinst CD.  It's not the defacto distro,
> and half the time you try running tasksel in the installation, it tries
> to remove the kernel, leaving you with a kernelless system.  I also run
> 'apt-cache search speakup' in a cron job each night, get mailed the
> results, and so far I see nothing but the Shane kernel mentioned so far.
> According to the guys at freenode.net, Lenny will only have the 2.6.24
> kernel, which will likely mean another search for  a modified,
> non-standard install disk.  I won't even go into how old their gnome-orca
> package is.  Don't get me wrong.  I'm running Debian and love it for
> other reasons.  It still does little to support my needs as yet, so I
> can't truthfully recommend it to blind novices until that support
> exists in the stock distro.  Linux is difficult enough without  adding
> blindness and a lack of real support on top of that.    If Lenny is
> released with SspeakUP, then I'll recommend it ahead of every other
> distro out there.
>
> Michael
>
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