Ok, but how does one install freebsd on a physical machine? I have a box here I would like to put freebsd on to use as a fileserver. It might be possible to install via ssh, but if doable it would require me to blindly activate networking and sshd. -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott Sent: 24 December 2014 14:08 To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: RE: a very challenging question? I install all the bsd stuff all the time without assistance. Like I said with qemu you just run it in a text console and speakup reads the text generated. installation and regular interaction works fine. kp On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Øyvind Lode wrote: > I would like to try out freebsd, openbsd and the other *bsds but my understanding is that I cannot install them without sighted assistance. > I currently use debian as a firewall, one file server, web server etc at home. > All text mode only mainly administrated from windows over ssh but access to the console is important if networking is down and so on. > On the console I use speakup with software speech. > I have no interest in running X on these systems. > At work I am the admin of some ubuntu servers which I administrer via ssh and these boxes is of course text mode only as well. > *bsd is very good for all networking related services like firewalling/routing, fileservers etc due to a better ip stack. > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott > Sent: 24 December 2014 04:47 > To: Linux for blind general discussion > Subject: Re: a very challenging question? > > I run freebsd, netbsd, and openbsd all the time. > my setup looks like this: > I run arch and use qemu for my virtual machines. > All the bsd machines are virtual. > I console to all of them and Linux Speakup handles the consoles as > they are just text output. > I can post more info if anyone is interested. > > -- Kelly Prescott > > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Tim Chase wrote: > >> I haven't tested FreeBSD running any accessibility software locally, >> accessing FreeBSD boxes mostly via SSH. Speakup is a Linux-specific >> set of patches and thus unavailable on FreeBSD. But the Speech >> Dispatcher daemon (speechd) appears to be in the FreeBSD ports >> collection, as do both Festival and Flite soft-synths, along with >> Orca and yasr. Both Orca and yasr should be able to connect to >> speechd, and that should be able to talk to either of the soft-synths >> above or to any supported hardware synth. I'm hoping to acquire an >> older netbook that my sister-in-law intends to discard, in which case >> I can try throwing FreeBSD on there and test accessibility options >> but it might not be until sometime in the new year. >> >> Regarding yasr and single consoles, might I recommend that you >> investigate "tmux" or possibly GNU Screen? You can spawn yasr, and >> then as your first command, launch screen/tmux to multiplex multiple >> sessions into that one screen-reader session. One of the nice things >> is that you can detach from your active session and then reattach via >> SSH to have all your windows/shells as you left them. Once you're >> done accessing it remotely, you can detach, then reattach back within >> yasr and everything is still as you left it. It's awesomely powerful >> and sounds like the perfect solution to your annoyance with the >> single-console nature of yasr. While yasr may be a bit old and >> dusty, it's done most of what I've wanted to do when I've poked at it. >> >> I wrote up a brief explanation/tutorial on tmux for the Raspberry VI >> mailing list which Mike Ray posted at the wiki: >> >> http://www.raspberryvi.org/wiki/doku.php/tmux >> >> If you have any more questions, I can't guarantee that I'd know the >> answers, but I'd be more than happy to chase them down to the best of >> my abilities (and hardware) >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> -tim >> >> >> On December 23, 2014, Kyle wrote: >>> I've wanted to play with FreeBSD or another sort of *real* BSD that >>> hasn't been tainted by Apple for quite a few years. However, I am >>> stopped thus far by a lack of a fully functional screen reader. >>> GhostBSD is really nice, as it is said to run the MATE desktop now, >>> but the problem is that Orca doesn't speak because of a Python >>> conflict that causes it to fail to talk to speech-dispatcher. This >>> would limit me to the command line, where the only full-featured >>> screen readers run on Linux only as far as I am aware. Speakup is a >>> set of modules that are specific to the Linux kernel, and SBL as far >>> as I know only runs on Linux. The only other choice then would be >>> YASR, which is rather old and is probably unmaintained now, and runs >>> as a subshell rather than as a system daemon, so one must login >>> without speech and run the YSR subshell manually in order to get a >>> somewhat decent screen reader for only a single virtual console. >>> This isn't really a problem if you intend to run your FreeBSD >>> machine remotely over ssh or telnet, but it makes running it >>> directly on your machine next to impossible. Please do correct me if >>> I happen to be wrong, as I would immediately try to set it up here, >>> at least on a virtual machine, and I could then support BSD as well >>> as Linux in the computer business that I run. -- "Don't judge my >>> disability until you are able to see my ability." ~Kyle: >>> https://kyle.tk/ My chunk of the internet: >>> https://chunkhost.com/r/Kyle >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list