Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable available

KatolaZ katolaz at freaknet.org
Sun Jun 10 12:04:02 EDT 2018


On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 08:52:30AM -0500, Rob wrote:
> KatolaZ <katolaz at freaknet.org> wrote:
> > just to let you know that Devuan, a fork of Debian commited to provide
> > alternatives to systemd, has released a new Stable version, codenamed
> > ASCII:
> > I thought the news might be relevant to this list in particular
> > because one of the standard flavours offered by Devuan (the so-called
> > minimal-live) aims to provide an accessible (and easily installable)
> > console-based live system for blind and visually-impaired users.
> 
> How does one invoke services such as BRLTTY or speakup on the install images? Is it done the same was the standard Debian images? That is, USB displays are detected automatically and you press the letter S to get speech at the boot menu?

Hi Rob,

Devuan is pretty much a Debian without systemd, so the install images
work mostly the same.

The minimal-live image has brltty enabled at boot, includes an
"accessible" boot options which autologins on all the shells, and
includes espeak, espeakup, yasr, and more.

HTH

KatolaZ

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