However on the desktop side of things Windows is still in the lead, and will continue to be so for some time. (Especially until we get a decent screen reader for X/gnome/kde/whatever). At this stage, Its a case of use what works best for you in the given situation, I still use Windows XP on several of my machines. Regards Aaron On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:05:35AM -0500, Jason Symes wrote: > Interesting. With all the vitrial I've seen from this list and other people > that use linux towards windows, I'm surprised a linux distro would be > designed to mimic the windows xp gui. That would be a good deal for those > sighties not comfortable to switching to something really unfamiliar to > them, yet still getting the stability of linux. > At 06:55 PM 9/15/02 +1000, you wrote: > > > >Why not have the best of both worlds. > >Visit http://www.lycoris.org (or for the bandwidthly impaired, > http://www.lycoris.com and get a copy on cd). > >You'll probably need sighted help to get it up and running, but once its > up you can of course use it like any other linux distribution via speakup > on the console. > >The beauty of this one is for all intents and purposes your sighted folk > will think its Windows XP. > >The GUI is actually KDE 2.2.2 (3.0 in the next release i believe) but its > been heavily customized to resemble XP in look and feel. > >Coupled with a copy of Crossover office and MS Office 2k, I've almost > convinced my Fiance that linux is the way to go. > >(and she's about as diehard windows as they come). > >(btw I have no affiliation with Lycoris at all, its just that someone > demoed it to us at work and it really does look awesome). > >Regards > >Aaron > > Jason Symes > kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat > can cause kids > The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the > zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) > if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. > If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! > Just trying to plug away! -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
