My suggestion is the Debian Squeeze live CD. It comes with Speakup as modules, but doesn't load Speakup automatically. Squeeze still has the older kernel, so hardware speech works. I used it to rescue a system here. There is also the Wheezy live CD, but it only supports software speech due to the newer kernel. The rescue and standard CDs both seem to have a lot of security and console tools and there are versions offering X and Gnome. Of all the CDs I've looked at in recent times, I'm the most impressed with this one. I used Samuel Thibault's remaster script, but it still didn't load Speakup automatically. You have to do the following when it boots: sudo modprobe speakup_ltlk Also, the Squeeze live CD apparently doesn't come with Espeak and Espeakup, so that might be an issue if you can't use hardware speech. I think Wheezy does on the live CD, but I'm not 100% positive and it doesn't load Speakup automatically either. Some others are Vinux which is based on Ubuntu and crashed a lot in my tests, GRML which I don't use anymore and can't comment on and Knoppix. Knoppix does have software speech, X and console tools. The Knoppix DVD supports a 64-bit kernel while the regular CD apparently doesn't. I would list Knoppix as my second choice for a live CD. I haven't determined if Knoppix comes with Speakup, but it does have its own screen reader. On 1/14/2013 8:47 AM, Don Raikes wrote: > My goal is to create an accessible linux livecd with a ton of accessible cyber security tools like cyber forensics and network security tools. > > > > I don't mind compiling the tools myself and doing that part, I just need a good baseline linux distro. > > > > Most of the tools are console-based, so something that boots to the console is great as long as I can go into an x-windows environment if necessary. > > > > I am open to suggestions and would appreciate some tips.
