Category: Geeks r Us
There's a new GNU/Linux release in town, just in time for "Linux Fair Season"; lol.
Trisquel, the distro that never recommends or includes non-free software, is now available in release 6.0; this is a long-term supported release, with security and maintanence upgrades available for 5 years. Features include:
I think I might get this release. I am having fun with OpenSuse, and I think I will give Trisquel a whiol and see what I think.
Oh cool!! This seems similar to Vinux, but somewhat better, adn(perhaps.) more stable? I can run this in a VM right?
I can't speak to the stability of this vs that of Vinux 4.0, but, yes, you should be able to virtualize it. I'd be interested in hearing whether the automatic activation of the accessibility works in a vm, and which kind.
Yes, you can indeed run this in a VM.
Dave, are programs like Skype and such like that accessible? And What's new in GNOME 3.4? I haven't used this in years.
I haven't seen a Skype package for Linux, but I imagine it would be accessible. I've been having a play with Linux, and am enjoying it a lot.
There is a skype for Linux, and it can be made partially accessible, by means of the qt-at-spi bridge, or the skype plugin for Pidgin messenger. Running a non-free program, like Skype, in a distro like Trisquel, though, is missing the point. If you want to run a few non-free bits, use a distro like Ubuntu, Sonar, Fedora, or Open Suse, and you won't feel guilty. LOL.
LOL I'm confused. so aer you saying running Skype in this distro won't work that well?
I'm saying Trisquel is a free-software-only distro, and running skype misses the point. Also, as it happens, the accessibility is limited. It can be made to 'sort-of' work with the qt bridge and/or by adding the skype for python bindings, with the clisk application. Sip is an open standard; people use that; also, there's mumble for group voice chat. I hang on the server mumble.accessiblefreedom.org, port 31277. There are mumble clients for Windows, OSX, and GNU/Linux.
Hmm, interesting! I'll keep that in mind. Are you one of the maintainers of this particular distro project?
Not a maintainer, just an advocate.
Which .iso do I grab, to get the Orca to wolk. Or is it universal in all .isos?
can this be imaged to a flash drive as a bootable drive?
The default 32 or 64-bit "trisquel_6.0"... isos have the accessibility enabled. No more need to get the I18N, as in 5.0 and 5.5. Yes, it can be imaged to a bootable flash drive, that's how I always use it. Use the 'dd' command, or some analog. If you prefer, you can use something like the unetbootin utility.
Hth,
Dave Hunt
I met Rubin Rodrigues (the project lead) today at Northeast GNU/Linux Fest; he's interested in getting LXDE panel accessible. If this comes to pass, We'll have another light-weight, accessible gui. When GNOME Fallback goes away, it may become our best option. Already, there are discussions of making only the LXDE version of Trisquel 7.0.
I did not want to make a new board for my vinux question so I figured I would put it here sense its a linux question. I have vinux 4.0 as a vertual machine, I checked the box that had orca preference screen go away. Now how the heck do I get back to orca's preference menu with out an orca key? I disabled my caps lock on the mac side so orca could use it. Well it was my thinking it would work and now I have no orca key. also, I have a USB number pad, I tried to get orca to use it, no go!. Any help would be appreciated here, outside of it so far the new vinux looks quiet nice and quick on my vm on my midd 2012 mac book pro.
Easiest thing to do might be to make orca return to its defaults. In the terminal, type
<code>
orca --quit
</code>
The terminal will still run, though you'll have no speech. type:
<code>
rm -rf ~/.local/share/orca/
</code>
Finally, use 'alt+f2' and type "orca", w/o the quotes. Orca will come up talking, with everything set to "factory" settings. You should have numpad-insert as your orca key again. Go back to the preferences dialogue, and fix things.
got ya thank you will try was not sure what to do.
Very good; let us know what happens. BTW, you may get more and better help from these resources:
Vinux List vinux-support@googlegroups.com add '+subscribe' to join. and
support@accessiblefreedom.org A mailing list or discussion of all things free software and accessibility.
use support-request@accessiblefreedom.org and send an empty message with 'subscribe' in subject line to join.
thank you dave I will subscribe two the lists.
They both have archives for your browsing and searching pleasure; LOL. Support@accessiblefreedom.org is distribution-neutral in name, but most of its active subscribers are using a Ubuntu derivative, be it Sonar, Vinux, Trisquel or Ubuntu, itself.