Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?)

[James & Nash]

Also it is a way to get blind people interested in Linux without having to 
mess around with various things. Linux still has a reputation for being very 
technical and designed primarily for very computer literate people not just 
the average home user which I would think the majority of people blind and 
otherwise are. That said some distros have made significant steps in making 
Linux accessible to a growing range of folks.

Take care
James Lyn Nash and Twinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?)


Tony Baechler, le Mon 01 Jun 2009 04:22:06 -0700, a écrit :
> If someone could please explain why Vinux is so much better than a
> mainstream distro and why one should lower their standards to using a
> special distro primarily for the blind,

My understanding is that it's available _now_ with tweaks here and
there, not waiting for distributions to properly fix things like e.g.
orca's reading of root-launched applications.  I do too believe that
it's not a viable long-term solution.

Samuel
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