[gui-talk] Most Accessible Linux Flavor

[Hoffman, Allen]

I"d suggest getting Vinux.  Its pretty installable and usable now.
I have it operating within a virtual using virtualbox and its pretty good.
I think learning how to use somethin
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Most Accessible Linux Flavor

For your purposes, I recommend stock debian.  If you want to play in the eye candy interface X, you'll have to learn orca.  I would have recommended arch linux, but the arch linux users list gets down right hostile at times.  Also, debian has a repository http://deb-multimedia.org/ you'll likely be using once you get debian installed.  It has most current versions of multimedia software on it.  
Debian will install using your sound card and after that will run using your sound card but only if you use the s command as a boot parameter.  
Just hit s when the hard drive stops and at the boot prompt then hit enter to do that.
I don't know the amount of multimedia software or the quality of the multimedia software on arch linux.  Ubuntu would have been a good possibility except it's slow about getting  accessibility updates installed.  Arch linux is the fastest about making accessibility updates available for installation, and http://www.sonar-project.org/ is coming out with a new release of sonar-linux which will use arch linux as its base.  However if you have a problem with sonar, there's a sonar support list that can help you out.

On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
>     I'm hoping to get a new computer in the near future and am 
> considering breaking with Windows due to the loss of particular 
> functionality in recent versions plus the high cost of Windows 
> software, and using Linux as my OS instead. Like Windows there are various versions or "Flavors" of Linux.
> Since I do lots of multi-media and Web design projects I'll be curious 
> as to which Linux versions offer the most where media applications are concerned.
> 
>     I'd like to know which version you find to be the most accessible 
> with screen readers, and which Linux screen readers work the best. I 
> know there are a few out there but have not had experience with them. 
> Do they require an external synthesizer or will they use your PC sound 
> card as Windows screen readers do.
> 
>  Peter Donahue
> 
>  ?No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.?
> Isaiah 54:17
> 
>  ?While for our princes they prepare
> In caverns deep a burning snare,
> He shot from heaven a piercing ray,
> And the dark treachery brought to day.?
> Anonymous
> 
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