and you cant upgrade to latest orca......
not in wheezy
----- Original Message -----
From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 5:57 PM
Subject: version of various packages (was: new user,wanting to build a
multimedia computer)
jheim@vv507k:~$ dpkg -p gnome-orca iceweasel
Package: gnome-orca
Version: 2.30.2-2
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.16-20
I don't use office (not even really sure what that is).
Just curious, what version of Orca, firefox and office does Debian
stable (6.0) carry?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 03/08/2013 09:39 PM, John G. Heim wrote:
Well, you're going to have a problem in that your questions are too
broad. I think it will be hard for anyone to tell you exactly what to
do. I think you should start by installing linux (obviously). I
personally use nothing but vanilla debian.
My home Linux machine died Sunday night and I just replaced it Monday.
I used the debian stable release candidate. This means it's not
technically debian's current stable release. But I think at this
point, you don't want to install the true stable version. You'd just
have to upgrade in a few weeks/months anyway. The current stable
version is version 6 (code named squeeze) and the release candidate is
version 7 (code named wheezy).
Wheezy seems to work fine. The one problem I've had is that it doesn't
start orca automatically. The current stable version does that.
On 3/7/2013 7:38 PM, reinhard stebner wrote:
This is what I would like to do but do not know where to start.
I have an older Dell (about 6 years old) that currently has windows 7
installed. I would like to take this machine and turn it into a multi
media server. I would like to hook up a NAS, run my music through it
(mp3 / m4a) movies, display movies if possible, hook it to the net and
be able to do normal computing tasks. I am very new to Linux (have been
reading the messages here) and I figured that it would be a good idea to
have someone help with this. Remembering that I am new to this and do
not know where to start and need a simple approach. I have compiled and
written code C and C++ in Unix. I played around briefly with Speakup
but I lost enters when the machine I was using stopped working (mother
board was friend). Now that I have a computer to play with again, I need
help setting it up and hardware that I would be able to do this.
So let’s start with sound card. It has a Sound Blaster xfy. One network
card and two hard drives. It has plenty of processing power.
What flavor of Linux would work for this?
How do I get started?
I do not have hardware speech and would need to use software speech.
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