vinux

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

Vinux is now using debian.

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 20:12 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 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.
> 
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