Hi all, It is a good question if you don't understand that Linux is a totally different operating system from Windows. JFW is a Windows product. If JFW worked under Linux, we wouldn't have Speakup or Emacspeak. You can emulate the key map, but you're talking apples and oranges. I'm not a techie, so I don't know the technical reasons behind this, but the way the screen reader gets info from the screen and so on are different. I think even the way graphics is handled in Linux is different from the way in which it is handled in Windows. And this is not to mention the licensing problems that would blossom if JFW users started using Linux. They wouldn't want to do so. Why should someone pay $900 for a screen reader when both the operating system, Linux, plus its very workable screen reader Speakup, and/or the output system for Emacs, are free. Not only are they free, as in free beer, their source code is free as well. I wouldn't pay a red cent for JFW to run on Linux. I couldn't afford it, for one. I couldn't fix it if it broke, for another. I'd have to wait years before the programmers at Freedom Scientific got their act together to implement any new features or to fix bugs. Naw, the learning curve is not steep enough to warrant such a thing. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but this question was spawned by someone who only understands Windows and not Linux. It is a valid question, as are all questions when asked sincerely, but it's a newbie question. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
