Vinux comes up talking when you boot it off of CD or USB stick, so it's
easy to install using Orca and eSpeak right out of the box. Depending on
how much you want to repartition your disk during the install, the
install with Vinux is quite easy.
On 20/05/16 02:24, Rob Harris wrote:
Good, that'll do. How easy is it to install directly by a speech-needy
user? I know XP is long past it's sellbye date.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: vinux questions
Well, by default,you'll get Orca and a software speech synthesizer
called eSpeak.
On 19/05/16 08:15, Rob Harris wrote:
For a former user of many years absence, what is used to make speech in
these distros? I had an external Apollo synth at that time, but not now,
nor
ports to connect it to.
Many thanks, BobH.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: vinux questions
Language selection should have been done as part of the installation
itself. Vinux is a poor choice for text-based anything since it
abandoned its text-based branch abck around version 3.x which was 2 or
3 years ago. A better bet for text-based installations is the iso at
http://talkingarch.tk/. Although it talks, brltty comes on the iso so
you can start that up in the usual way if braille is more effective than
speech for you. It may be possible to enable speech and braille, I
don't know since I never had the funds to purchase my own braille
display and use it with any of these Linux distros.
On Thu, 19 May 2016, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 08:19:38
From: Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg.kristoffer@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: vinux questions
Hi.
Finally I got the vinux live image working on my computer.
I've got some questions before I decide to use this or debian.
1. can I select the language I want?
I'm using swedish.
2. how do I do if I want to update packages?
In debian I'm using apt-get for this.
3. can I compile new kernels, and install whatever I want just like in
debian?
4. can I do a text based install of vinux with my braille display?
I like text based things more than graphical.
/Kristoffer
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