Thanks a lot for this detailed explanation.
Imbar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Linux without sighted help
There is a Linux emulator you can run under Windows. I guess there are
several but the one I'm familiar with is cygwin (www.cygwin.com). If you
have a couple GB of free disk space you can install everything; it
provides a pretty good system - slower than real Linux but usable. If you
have a braille display you can run brltty which gives a nearly
indistinguishable look and feel; if you use speech you'll have to use your
Windows screen reader. Since I'm not a speech user I don't know a lot
about that.
I use it all the time for light tasks like checking man and info pages,
running ssh, using Lynx, reading books, and stuff like that. It works a
bit better if you run Screen on Cygwin.
The installer is tricky. It strikes many people as inaccessible. My
experience is that it isn't inaccessible at all, just clumsy as the
dickens; if you install the default system and then add everything else
(note: a two-stage approach) the installer isn't hard once you figure out
what's going on.
Go to www.cygwin.com, read a bit, install the default system, then read
the user's guide and install everything else.
--
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>
"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
--Fred Allen
_______________________________________________
Blinux-list mailing list
Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
--
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database:
269.19.15/1248 - Release Date: 1/28/2008 9:32 PM
_______________________________________________
Blinux-list mailing list
Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list