installation of suse linux

[Darragh]

Cody, 

The only way you'll be able to do an independent installation of OpenSuSE, Sles or Sled is via SSH. 

When you get OpenSuSE installed, You'll struggle against the accessibility of YaST, the system tool and package manager and even in Gnome, you'll find the weirdest and most stupid bugs because although they have some great developers in ovell, they just don't have the resources for Accessibility.  However, one good thing they have done is employe one person to work on accessibility full time.  Marco Scambrax is his name and he's a very intelligent developer.  He's unfortunately fighting against the rest of the company so his efferts do not reflect the end result. 

There are two versions of YaST.  The GTK+ and the NGurses versions.  Speakup will work to a reasonable degree in the text based version but it's not great.  Mainly because there are a lot of different controls for it to handle. 

In the graphical version, they've really come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years thanks to the GTK+ version released in 10.3 however they've a very long way to come.  The GTK+ version was not tested well with accessibility so I've ofund dozens of errors in it that are all reported in bugzilla.  Some of these have been fixed and distributed to 10.3 via online update however a lot have been pushed forward to 11.  

Speaking of Eleven, OpenSuSE has a lot to live up to so one of the first things I'll do is run it through it's paces but although I'm optimistic, in reality, I know that there will still be a lot of problems. 


Sorry I cant be more positive.  



Darragh
www.digitaldarragh.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-
> bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Cody Hurst
> Sent: 26 May 2008 19:16
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: installation of suse linux
> 
> Hello list,
> 
>    Next year I am going to be using suse for a Linux course, towards
> the second part of the ear. I have no other way of accessing the
> install, hwoever when a friend booted the first cd of the cd set he
> had seen some text scroll by that looked as if they were loading
> braille modules.
> 
>    I have read about blinux, however the writings were old, and when
> trying to follow the instructions, they did not work. My only option
> is speakup, and a BNS. Is there a way that speakup can be included
> relatively soon so that I can do this course? This would not be just
> for me, but anyone wishing to install a professional grade OS in the
> field. This would greatly enhace accessibility for these individuals.
> 
>    Please write back to me on or off list, describing what I can do
> otherwise if this is not possible.
> 
> Cody
> 
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