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However on the desktop side of things Windows is still in the lead, and will continue to be so for some time.
(Especially until we get a decent screen reader for X/gnome/kde/whatever).
At this stage, Its a case of use what works best for you in the given situation, I still use Windows XP on several of my machines.
Regards
Aaron
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:05:35AM -0500, Jason Symes wrote:
> Interesting. With all the vitrial I've seen from this list and other people
> that use linux towards windows, I'm surprised a linux distro would be
> designed to mimic the windows xp gui. That would be a good deal for those
> sighties not comfortable to switching to something really unfamiliar to
> them, yet still getting the stability of linux.
> At 06:55 PM 9/15/02 +1000, you wrote:
> >
> >Why not have the best of both worlds.
> >Visit http://www.lycoris.org (or for the bandwidthly impaired,
> http://www.lycoris.com and get a copy on cd).
> >You'll probably need sighted help to get it up and running, but once its
> up you can of course use it like any other linux distribution via speakup
> on the console.
> >The beauty of this one is for all intents and purposes your sighted folk
> will think its Windows XP.
> >The GUI is actually KDE 2.2.2 (3.0 in the next release i believe) but its
> been heavily customized to resemble XP in look and feel.
> >Coupled with a copy of Crossover office and MS Office 2k, I've almost
> convinced my Fiance that linux is the way to go.
> >(and she's about as diehard windows as they come).
> >(btw I have no affiliation with Lycoris at all, its just that someone
> demoed it to us at work and it really does look awesome).
> >Regards
> >Aaron
> 
> Jason Symes
> kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat
> can cause kids
> The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the
> zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke)
> if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything.
> If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all!
> Just trying to plug away!


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