Can Vinux be installed as a host OS by a blind user that doesn't have a
braille display?
I have tried it as a VMWare image but I succeeded to make it freeze and I
don't know why this happened.
I also didn't know how to make it access the internet, but maybe this was
complicated by the fact that I was using it as a VMWare image.
Here is what I would like to be able to do with it for the beginning:
- start a command line which is accessible;
- install MySQL, Apache2, Perl, and use cpan for compiling and installing
some perl modules;
- use an accessible editor, an accessible browser and an accessible email
client.
- It would be also nice if there would be an accessible file manager with a
GUI.
Can you give a few steps about how I can use an accessible command prompt,
editor and browser under Vinux?
Thank you.
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Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: Linux GUI FAQ/tutorial?
I recommend vinux-gui as either a stand-alone system used to bypass the
hard drive for whenever anyone is doing online credit card transactions or
online banking since when the computer turns off all the sensitive data
goes away guarranteed. Also vinux-gui should install easily provided a
would-be installer remembers to run the ubiquity utility to do so. Since
orca will already be working when the user gets vinux-gui running, it will
be installed so that a user's orca settings are preserved and also
installed to the hard drive. Hitting alt-f2 and keying in ubiquity as root
user and hitting enter should start the show.
Very few questions in that program too.On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Octavian
R?snita wrote:
Aha, so using the Linux GUI when installed directly as a host OS is more
stable. That's good.
Is it accessible to install Linux with a GUI as a host OS by a blind?
Thanks.
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Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell"
<jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: Linux GUI FAQ/tutorial?
That's probably a side effect of running vmware. Both operating
systems
grab the sound card and try to do their own things with it and have to
be
straighteneded out.On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Linux everyday, but only in command line mode, with Secure CRT
> SSH client from Windows because I find the Linux gui very hard
> accessible.
> In the last period I hear that more and more blind users use Linux
> with a GUI and I am sure I am missing something, because now Linux
> might be also better accessible.
> Can you please tell me if this is true?
>
> Can you tell me if (and which) Linux distributions are stable enough
> to compare them with Windows?
>
> I ask about stability because I have tried a Vinux distro in a VMWare
> virtual machine, but after a few days I couldn't hear anything anymore
> because I might have done something bad (although I don't know to use
> the Linux GUI very good, so I haven't done very complicated things.
> ...and I wouldn't like to need reinstalling the VMWare image too
> often.
>
> If you used an editor like TextPad or UltraEdit or Edit Plus under
> Windows... can you tell me if there is a similar editor available
> under Linux which is so simple to use? (So no strange old things like
> vi or Emacs).
>
> I need to run my programs under Linux in production, and if the
> interface would be really as accessible as the one under Windows, it
> would be much more easy.
>
> I don't need very many programs, but just a very good and simple to
> use editor, mail client, command prompt, file manager, and a browser
> that can also display the HTTP headers. Nothing more.
> Is there an equivalent or even easier to use for TextPad, Outlook
> Express, MS DOS prompt, Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer?
>
> If there is, please tell me if I can find somewhere information about
> how to use them with a screen reader and a software synthesizer under
> Linux.
>
> The first things I would like to do is to set up the internet
> connection (if it is not configured automaticly when installing the
> VMWare image), start the command prompt, run cpan and install perl
> modules and also install some system libs with yum/apt-get.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Octavian
>
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