For blind people, a dual boot. It saves on having to try to start an Xterm then run vmware from within an x session, and you can set that one up yourself, where with Vmware you are currently still going to need at least some sighted assistance, if only to get x up and running to a point where it will actually run Vmware. Regards Aaron On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 07:17:00AM -0400, Charles Crawford wrote: > Hmmm. So I wonder which is more productive, a dual boot or VMware? > > -- charlie. > On Sat, > 19 Apr 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote: > > > Well, your going to need a windows screen reader in eddition to speakup. > > Your also going to have to have x-windows setup, because vmware runs through > > x windows. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford at acb.org> > > To: Speakup List <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 8:55 AM > > Subject: VMWare? > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I am seriously thinking of adding VMWare to my Linux 9 computer at > > > work. I want to install win98 so I can run MS-Word and some DOS apps in > > > addition to the stuff I have already in Linux. Anyone had any experience > > > with this and are there any problems for speakup? > > > > > > --- Charlie Crawford > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > -- Charlie Crawford > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
