I thought of trying OpenSuse, leap. But after burning that to a dvd and using super alt s, I heard nothing. Did that distribution come with orca? > On Jun 22, 2020, at 10:00 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > SBL is a console screen reader, and one of the reasons it's my > favorite is that screen review is as simple as holding down caps lock > and using the arrow keys(left/right for character-by-character, > up/down for line-by-line). > > It's the default text-mode screen reader used by Knoppix when run in > it's accessibility-focused Adriane mode and is also available as an > RPM package in OpenSuSe, but to my knowledge, those are the only > distros it's avaialable for. > > No clue where it lies on the kernel versus userspace spectrum(espeakup > depends on the speakup kernel module while part of the original > impetus for Fenrir was to create a fully userspace screen reader that > would work on systems that exclude speakup from their kernels(and > while I don't understand Kernel development much, I understand speakup > has been stuck in something called staging for years and that only the > more inclusive builds of Linux import anything from staging). > > _______________________________________________ > 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