I didn't purchase a raspberry Pi yet, I'm about to take that step. Your response has provided a bit more information and I was also told it would be possible for me to purchase last year's model and all I would loose would be some input options as a result of not purchasing the current model. On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:45:50 > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: raspberry pi for screen reader users > > Which Raspberry Pi do you have? As far as I know, there are still 3 versions > being sold: The original Raspberry Pi model B, the Pi2 and the Pi3, all at the > same price. Did you only purchase the computer,or did you get it in a kit with > an SD card, a case and possibly a reader? The Pi3 is the only model with > onboard wifi and bluetooth, but its wifi only supports the 2.4GHz band. That > said, most routers support both 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands, so the onboard wifi > should still work. If you did buy your Raspberry Pi in a kit, the OS on the > MicroSD will depend on the kit you purchased. However, although I believe the > kit I have initially had Ubuntu, I'm not sure what is on other MicroSD cards. > It will be better to rewrite it with a different OS. Instructions are > available for ArchLinuxARM on its website > > https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/broadcom/raspberry-pi-2 > > which also works on the Raspberry Pi 3. The tarball download includes no > screen reader, but you can install packages over ssh fairly easily. You will > probably want the MATE desktop and the Orca screen reader. It runs a bit > slowly on these machines, because they have fairly slow processors and less > RAM than other similar machines, but if you get zramswap from the AUR, you can > add a little swapspace in memory that will speed things up a little. If you > don't want/like the Arch philosophy or the rolling release model, where there > is no set timetable for complete OS releases, and each package gets upgraded > when it is released, I believe there may be Ubuntu releases that include Orca > as well, although I don't have a link at this time. In all cases, you will > want to either use your wired speakers and mask pulseaudio to keep it > disabled, or use your USB speakers, as Pulseaudio remains badly broken on the > Raspberry Pi's own sound hardware. > > Imetumwa kutoka maisha > > _______________________________________________ > 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