#+OPTIONS: latex:t toc:nil H:3 So, if Debian is all we have, pretty much, who cares about accessibility, what is there for those who want a clean, but up-to-date system other than Arch? As a user, of Emacs with Emacspeak and Voxin mostly, I find Arch stable enough to basically do a job. I "work" 3 hours a day with teaching clients Assistive technology, with Emacs, atop Arch. Which reminds me, I should set up an Outlook rule which forwards all incoming email from that darn exchange server to my gmail address... Anyways, I’m just a user speaking, I do not yet know a programming language, besides a bit of lisp, how to successfully print in Python, and a few HTML rules, enough to know that when I htmlize some Org markup, it’ll look okay on Outlook in HTML message mode. All this to say, I want up to date packages. I /know/ there will be bugs. There /always/ is bugs in any system. iOS’s Braille input is sluggish, probably a memory leak, Android’s Braille support just plain stinks, like Narrator on Win XP, and the Mate notification system repeats itself. So really, I’ll take a /few/ bugs for freedom and updated packages any day.. -- Sent from Discordia using Gnus for Emacs. Email: r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx Long days and pleasant nights! Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tony Baechler here. > > Thanks for the Fenrir link. I'll go get it. I've looked at the SBL > source, or what I could find of it. No, it doesn't need a kernel > module. The problem is it's tied into Knoppix, so I think would be > difficult to package. It's mostly bash scripts which I guess are a > talking menu system. I didn't see a way to actually compile an > executable, but I'm sure I wasn't finding the full sources even though > I looked. It is or was somewhere on knoppix.org. I think it hasn't > been maintained for a long time. If I recall correctly, the source was > several years old. If it's in opensuse as you say, you should be able > to get and extract the RPM package. If you find it and get it working, > I would be interested. > > On 4/24/2017 6:05 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >> I haven't ever found the SBL source code, although I did want to try to >> package it for Arch at one point. That said, I'm not sure whether or not >> anyone is even still maintaining it now, and not having seen the source or >> the package dependencies, I'm not entirely sure it doesn't rely on a kernel >> module of its own. I do know that Fenrir has no such requirement at all, and >> the source is on Github. >> https://github.com/chrys87/fenrir >> At this point, it can run on any Linux distro, although Debian and Ubuntu >> LTS may have trouble with the newer python-evdev required in order to run >> it. But that's easily fixed with pip. >> ~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