Hi Janina, I set up tmpfs as Sam suggested. I'm thinking of a desktop tower with a bluetooth adapter so i can use my Focus 40 blue. Which desktop environment do you sugest? I'm not good with GUIs, that's why I'm in command-line only. I'm trying to develop my GUI skills on Windows, since there is more help available for that than for anything else. I tried Vinux 4 with the Unity desktop, but I found it even more counterintuitive than Windows. Another problem was that the Grade 2 support in Orca wasn't very good at the time. I'll certainly look into Emperor Linux. Thanks, John On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 08:47:38PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, John: > > You've already gotten excellent advice on list about modern Linux > installations, so I'm not going to repeat all that. Suffice it to say > that what you're trying to achieve is pretty much the default install > these days, i.e. the tmpfs in ram, etc., etc. > > My question to you is what kind of machine? Are we talking about an > office tower here? Or is this going to be a laptop? > > If the former--then there's lots to talk about. But, if it's a laptop, I > strongly suggest you consider getting it from an outfit like Emperor > Linux: > > http://www.emperorlinux.com/ > > You'll pay a bit more for the machine than you would pay for the same > model elsewhere, but it will have Linux installed to your > specifications, and you'll have their support as you learn to use your > new machine. That's worth the price difference, imo. > > PS: Go ahead and have them install everything you need to run the > graphical desktop with Orca's braille support, but tell them you want > the console to be your default boot environment. That's a very simple > systemctl command these days, and leaves you with all the flexibility > you can ever want, i.e. you can start the gui with a startx command > whenever you do want to run Firefox, or something else on the desktop. > > Janina > > John J. Boyer writes: > > I've more or less decided to replacer my ten-year-old Linux machine. It > > is giving error messages intermittently. Most of them are about sector > > errors, but others seem to have nothing to do with the hard drive. It > > may be more and more troublesome, even if the hard drive is replaced. > > Besides, it would be nice to get more up-to-date hardware. > > > > I'm thinking of getting 32 GB of ram. 8 GB will be for normal use. The > > other 24 GB will be in a ramdisk. Do I need a paging file? 8 GB of > > available ram should be more than enough. The paging file on my present > > machine always shows 0 usage, even with only 4 GB of ram. How do I avoid > > setting up a paging file during installation? I'm using Debian Jessie. > > > > How do i set up the ramdisk? I want to assign the temp directory to it. > > It might be nice if the bin, sbin and usr directories were loaded onto > > it at boot-up. > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > -- > > John J. Boyer; President, > > AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > > Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > > Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > > Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > > Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list