Also there is another thing. How can I know the programs I have and their commands to run? I tried to run Firefox and it said "cannot open display". In the GUI version they would all be in start>applications, but what about in text versions? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp >I have used the free vmware server at www.vmware.com, I just mentioned > that there may be others as some people prefer to use open source > software (as you have greater rights with open source software). > > If you use vmware, I think most of it is quite self explanatrary, > download the windows version (I assume you will want to run this under > windows) install, load vmware, create a new hardware configuration (not > quite sure from memory what vmware calls this), choose the configuration > options you want from the screens that come up, modify and add extra > hardware if you want it (things like USB ports, serial ports, audio, > etc), make sure that configuration boots from CD , insert CD and then > get vmware to start the virtual machine and continue as if you were > running Linux directly on the computer (you may need to tell vmware to > grab keyboard input, I think it is ctrl+shift+g). Sorry those aren't > very specific, but I am doing this by memory, and I think the menu items > are enough (let us know if you have trouble and hopefully someone will > know the specific answer). > > From > Michael Whapples > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:33 +0330, Parham wrote: >> The thing is that which one of these emulators should I get? And how can >> I >> install Linux on one? >> Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
