software speech

[Erik Heil]

Hi,
Apparently its not that difficult to navigate the Cygwin package managers.
I can't speak from personal experience, as I don't have any Windows
installations here at all.  But people have successfully done it.  Form
what I hear, Cygwin is pretty good.  It even includes an X server and
clients.  What would be cool though is if one could install and run Gnome
with Metacity under Windows.   Don't mean it to be a permanent solution,
but just for those who want to see what the environment is like and don't
want to deal with a slow liveCD.  I suppose though that their are
alternative options such as USB/CF cards, but doesn't do much for machines
that don't either support them as a boot device or lack necessary
hardware.

--Erik

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:28:47 -0700
> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: software speech
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> Furthermore, the installer is down right horrible! I couldn't select
> packages, no how, no way.  I couldn't ever figure out the selected
> status of any of the items in the package selection list box.  When I
> wrote on the cygwin mail list about it, it was implied that the
> program would have to be completely re-written to correct this
> problem.  So I just gave up on cygwin completely.  Since I already had
> a fully functional linux environment, I figured, why bother with it.
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:48:50PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > The thing with cygwin though, is that you have to install a whole
> > bunch of software, (I.E. in order to use ssh, you have to install the
> > whole base system, you can't just install the ssh client). If this has
> > changed since about 5 years ago, which is when I last played with
> > cygwin, then it would be good to know that.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:19:56PM -0400, Nick Stockton wrote:
> > > Well I've used cygwin's ssh client for a long time now to connect to my
> > > server box when not at home and it works great with jaws or nvda.
> > > Windoweyes command line access is not as good as jaws or nvda so if you
> > > have windoweyes you might want to install a copy of nvda in order to use
> > > cygwin.
> > > When I'm at home I use my debian desktop.
> >
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