I've been using cygwin a little while, I find it hard to edit files, the demo of vocal-eyes I have doesn't track the screen well, tried windows telnet, equally not good, but cygwin responds a little better. At 11:49 AM 10/13/01 -0400, you wrote: >On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Martin G. McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > >> I have been behind on reading Email this Summer, but I >> just read the discussion concerning FreeBSD. This is a little >> off-topic because FreeBSD isn't Linux, but it is open-source, >> free, and very robust. This last Summer, I installed FreeBSD-4.3 >> on four IBM Netfinity servers. It took me a bit to get the hang >> of the process, but it is extremely blind-friendly if your system >> has at least one serial port and that port functions as Com1. >Thanks a lot for your report; that's very interesting. >> >> >> FreeBSD is just another fine open-source choice we have. >> I think it has much better security by default than Linux does, >> but Linux can be quite secure if you take the time to make it >> that way. >Well, actually, let's not forget that linux is just the kernel; security >level varies greatly between the different distributions. Also, distributions >like Redhat who are trying to become more user friendly can't quite do so >without sacrificing security a little. I think the level of security by >default also does differ amongst the different BSD based OSes anyway. >> >> Anyway, I figured I would share my experiences with the >> rest of the list regarding FreeBSD. >Again, thank you for doing so. >> >> I probably should amend what I said at the first. If >> you have a Windows P.C. and JAWS or any of the other Windows >> screen readers, that will also work fine to communicate with the >> FreeBSD system's serial port. Your Windows terminal program >> should emulate a VT100 and the Comm port needs to be 9600, N, 8 >> and 1 in order to work with the remote console built in to the >> FreeBSD installation disk. >Hey, you've forgotten linux! :) You could easily use a linux box with minicom >to access the target machine... >> >> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >