Re: Sonar GNU/Linux merges with Vinux

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Sorry for the late reply, but see comments below.

On 3/16/2017 3:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
Eric Oyen wrote:

...we, as a community, don't have an actual unified distro
to call our own. Sure, Vinux is a decent distro, but it's
lacking a lot of useful features outside of accessibility.

OK, but why do we, as a community, need a special distro? Yes, it's free software, so there is certainly nothing stopping you as long as you realize it's your pet distro along with the about 300 others on distrowatch.com. I would much rather have a popular, mainstream distro which includes great accessibility like Debian and derivatives.


I'm not sure how things are at present, but in the past,
Debian has shown some commitment to supporting
accessibility[1], including at the installer level[2].

Yes, Debian still supports accessibility. Every alpha release of D-I has accessibility features and fixes.


This is not the same as a special-purpose distribution, and
I think the pages were written some time ago. Still I would
think that some effort would be worthwhile, and would
benefit all Debian derivatives, which could include
a accessbility-centric distribution.

1. https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
2. https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility

These pages should be fairly current and are often updated by Debian developers like Samuel Thibault.

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