On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:06:01AM +0100, Alastair Irving wrote: > Hi All Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a netbook. The 2 main ones which run linux > seem to be the Asus Eee Pc and the Acer Aspire One. I was wondering if Yes, there is a debian wiki dedicated to the asus. > anyone on list has any experience of these. They both run custom linux > distros, so I would like to know how possible it is to get accessibility > related software to run on them, i.e. speakup, brltty, emacspeak and I'm thinking of buying one. Yes, don't bother with the custom distro, install debian-eeepc or ubuntu... Debian eeepc from memory supports brltty in the installation. Emacspeak should work. Speakup, I guess there should be modules around, and no reason why orca shouldn't work.
