If you want Linux like functionality in Windows why not use Cygwin? That is completely accessible with Windows screen reading technology, and has all your development tools, as well as a lot of the more common Linux packages. Hope this helps. Best reguards, Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy" <l84ad8r@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 8:46 PM Subject: Re: linux on a windows box > Not sure about the hole compiling thing, but, I do know that it works > alot faster than it will on vmware as I have tried both. As far as > serial, soundcard, usb etc, support, it seems that it is lacking, but, > just to have something to mess around with, wich only takes like 10 > seconds to boot I may add is fun at least. It is really easy to get > going to, so, that's a plus. All it takes is writing a little config > file for it, unzipping the immage that it downloads for you and there ya > go, as simple as that. As I said, the console that it uses is really > accessible with jaws, so that's why I even messed with it. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
