Living on the bleeding edge for command line distros, http://talkingarch.tk/ has an iso for you. This is routinely ahead of debian jessie. On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, John G Heim wrote: > Debian stable shows brltty 4.4. Vinux 4.0 has brltty 4.5. I don't have a > debian testing machine around to check the version. But the last time I tried > debian testing, code named jessie, it had a lot of problems particularly with > the character interface. Of course, if you're just using brltty, that probably > doesn't matter. > > I was going to post an answer to your original question saying that you were > asking for something pretty difficult. A distro that specializes in having the > latest versions of most packages is also going to have more problems. Usually, > ubuntu is a pretty good compromise between stability and new packages. If I > was you, I'd give ubuntu another try. Just about any distro should work pretty > well in character mode. > > Another thing you might try is sonar. I haven't used sonar since they > switched to an manjero based system. But when they were basing their distro on > ubuntu, it was excellent. They do focus on the graphical user environment > though. > > Also, I am pretty sure that brltty uses udev rules to detect your braille > displayand start the brltty daemon. If you need a newer version of brltty, it > may be because theyadded a new udev rule for your braille display. > > Anyway, the point is that you shouldn't have to worry about which distro to > use to get brltty started. They should all do that subject to the caveat > above. It's the package, not the distro. > > > On 11/14/2014 09:12 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > > It looks like Debian might be the best choice. However, I need brltty to > > run at boot-up, so it shows the login mesage. Is there a package for > > Debian that will set this up. I also need brltty 5.2, because 5.1 won't > > work with my Focus 40 Braille display. I don't want a graphical > > interface preloaded. > > > > Ubuntu 14.04 sometimes behaves strangely at the command line. > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 02:13:44PM +0100, Aldo wrote: > > > As far as I know, there isn't any distro that should be the "best" for > > > command-line usage; I'am a Debian user since march 2000, and Ubuntu is > > > giving me as much satisfaction used on command-line interface. > > > There aren't so much differences between shese two distros used on > > > command-line, that I may easily say taht they are quite similar and as > > > easy > > > and accessible both. > > > The only reason why sometimes I choosed for Ubuntu instead of Debian, is > > > that there are some apps in a recent version on it; but in general I use > > > Deiban on a desktop PC, and the only difference for me is root versus sudo > > > su, taht's all! > > > > > > Aldo. > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:55:53AM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > > Which distro is best for working solely at the command line? I was using > > > > CentOS for a while, but some of the applications were out of date. > > > > Ubuntu is giving me trouble. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > > > > > > > > -- > > > > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer > > > > Abilitiessoft, Inc. > > > > http://www.abilitiessoft.com > > > > Madison, Wisconsin USA > > > > Developing software for people with disabilities > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > -- > > > | Verstuurd vanaf mijn GNU/Linux | Envoy? de mon GNU/Linux | > > > | ----------------- Sent from GNU/Linux ------------------ | > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Twitter: @jdashiel _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list