Hi, Larissa Naber, le Sun 07 Aug 2005 07:17:52 +0200, a écrit : > My friend Yasemin, who is blind, wants to give Linux a spin. Now I'm > looking for a suiteable distro. Although I have plenty of Linux > experience my knowledge concerning making linux work for ablind person > is somewhat limited. As of now, I spectaculariy failed to make my > emacspeak speak. Most of my own maschines are running either gentoo or > slackware and I used Suse in the past. > > I believe that a distro with a bsd like port system such as debian or > gentoo is easiest to handle for a newbie. As gentoo tends to be a bit > volatile, I probably would rather pick a debian stable release. Anybody > out there using debian? Probably more on debian-accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :) > We allready tried a Suse (which refused to recognize the braille > terminal, a baum vario 40) and a oralux (which just would not talk on > her machine - I guess I'll have to put in a different sound card, > probably some windows only onboard chip) > > It is not necessary that she'll be able to install the maschine all by > herlf (at least not yet). > > Please let me know what you are using, and why you are using it. > > Greetings > > Larissa Regards, Samuel _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list