installation of suse linux

[Cody Hurst]

Darragh,

I'm unsure what version of Suse we are going to be using, but I will  
guess suse enterprise. Does speakup/ssh still hold true for use  
enterprise? Does speakup come precompiled into suse? If you would, and  
i know this is a lot to answer, but can you give me a rundown of what  
I will have to do in order to start installing. I mean, boot commands,  
key presses, etc. I'm probably just going to tell my teacher I will  
need another machine to do this on. In real life, this will be on a  
real box, not vmware, which is my biggest nightmare for next year.  
I've never really took a liking to Novell anyway because of its  
techniques and layout. I find it extremely complex and confusing. I am  
going to be taking a Novell OES exam on Friday and that course wasn't  
pleasant to do. I do think Novell needs to use these other foundations  
and projects as mentors for accessibility but I can't make water into  
wine, so my guess is that I will not be seeing accessibility soon.

Can you perhaps give me a little insight on what in the world blinux  
is all about. Should I just give up on even trying to learn or use it?  
I've written 2 emails to the blinux list, and have not even once goten  
a response you can google my emails and you will find that I have no  
gotten any responses.

However, I think my tech instructor would benefit from this  
information, since you would know more than I have, which these issues.

If I may ask, why did you choose Novell as a place to be hired?

Thanks for all the help you can give, and I will be in touch with him.
On May 26, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Darragh wrote:

> 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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