Hi, Apparently its not that difficult to navigate the Cygwin package managers. I can't speak from personal experience, as I don't have any Windows installations here at all. But people have successfully done it. Form what I hear, Cygwin is pretty good. It even includes an X server and clients. What would be cool though is if one could install and run Gnome with Metacity under Windows. Don't mean it to be a permanent solution, but just for those who want to see what the environment is like and don't want to deal with a slow liveCD. I suppose though that their are alternative options such as USB/CF cards, but doesn't do much for machines that don't either support them as a boot device or lack necessary hardware. --Erik On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Steve Holmes wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:28:47 -0700 > From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: software speech > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Furthermore, the installer is down right horrible! I couldn't select > packages, no how, no way. I couldn't ever figure out the selected > status of any of the items in the package selection list box. When I > wrote on the cygwin mail list about it, it was implied that the > program would have to be completely re-written to correct this > problem. So I just gave up on cygwin completely. Since I already had > a fully functional linux environment, I figured, why bother with it. > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:48:50PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The thing with cygwin though, is that you have to install a whole > > bunch of software, (I.E. in order to use ssh, you have to install the > > whole base system, you can't just install the ssh client). If this has > > changed since about 5 years ago, which is when I last played with > > cygwin, then it would be good to know that. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:19:56PM -0400, Nick Stockton wrote: > > > Well I've used cygwin's ssh client for a long time now to connect to my > > > server box when not at home and it works great with jaws or nvda. > > > Windoweyes command line access is not as good as jaws or nvda so if you > > > have windoweyes you might want to install a copy of nvda in order to use > > > cygwin. > > > When I'm at home I use my debian desktop. > > > > > > - -- > > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > > > - -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkivJjIACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDeuwCbBEDlAOfNtzpL19Cb9UGVz7nq > > CZkAn0achjWKxLy6J7ygN81zC5h9GiHY > > =tfSQ > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFI5LBuWSjv55S0LfERAwQLAKDaeRTeonERcgc39mX1j8lTxGS6BQCghyk+ > fx17PF5p7sfEBBjF8LfD0qo= > =R13V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > eheil at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
