vinux

[Jude DaShiell]

For really fast booting systems, ubuntu is a nightmare.  If a system boots 
slower ubuntu probably will work, but with vinux even on a fast booting 
system you boot it and wait and in time orca comes up talking.  The thing 
with ubuntu as was explained over on the gnome-orca list is that several 
issues with ubuntu regarding use of root account with speech were fixed in 
vinux and those fixes went out pre-packaged.  I do have an older version 
of ubuntu around which needed sighted assistance to get installed and 
talking because of that booting issue.  There's no way I could recommend 
ubuntu as a first Linux for a blind person needing accessibility like orca 
but could recommend grml or vinux or debian though.  What was a nice 
surprise with grml was that it installed on my laptop and runs, I don't 
know that the other flavors of Linux can do that especially not debian.