<html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=window.innerWidth-10, initial-scale=1.0"><script></script><style></style></head><body contenteditable="false" style="zoom: 100%; padding-left: 18px; padding-right: 2px; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1ex; color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Last i read, both sonargnulinux and vinux were in the process of merging into Fedora and that first release was supposed to have happened sometime in April 2017 and would be called Fedora 26.0.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What has happened since then I do not now know.<br/> <br/> Sent from <a href="http://www.bluemail.me/r">BlueMail</a> for iPhone</span></p> </div><div style="color: black; padding-right: 0px;"><div_wrapper style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0ex; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0ex; padding-right: 1cm;"><span class="type_quote" style="font-size: 17.0px;color: #0b21ef;">On Apr 18, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Tony Baechler <<a dir="ltr" href="mailto:tony@baechler.net" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">tony@baechler.net</a>> wrote:</span><br><div class="mail__original_custom_class"></div>Sorry for the late reply, but see comments below. <br> <br>On 3/16/2017 3:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote: <br><blockquote type="cite">Eric Oyen wrote: <br> <br><blockquote type="cite">...we, as a community, don't have an actual unified distro <br>to call our own. Sure, Vinux is a decent distro, but it's <br>lacking a lot of useful features outside of accessibility. <br></blockquote></blockquote> <br>OK, but why do we, as a community, need a special distro? Yes, it's free <br>software, so there is certainly nothing stopping you as long as you realize <br>it's your pet distro along with the about 300 others on <a dir="ltr" href="http://distrowatch.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">distrowatch.com</a>. I <br>would much rather have a popular, mainstream distro which includes great <br>accessibility like Debian and derivatives. <br> <br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>I'm not sure how things are at present, but in the past, <br>Debian has shown some commitment to supporting <br>accessibility[1], including at the installer level[2]. <br></blockquote> <br>Yes, Debian still supports accessibility. Every alpha release of D-I has <br>accessibility features and fixes. <br> <br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>This is not the same as a special-purpose distribution, and <br>I think the pages were written some time ago. Still I would <br>think that some effort would be worthwhile, and would <br>benefit all Debian derivatives, which could include <br>a accessbility-centric distribution. <br> <br>1. <a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility</a> <br>2. <a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Debian_installer_accessibility</a> <br></blockquote> <br>These pages should be fairly current and are often updated by Debian <br>developers like Samuel Thibault. <br> <br>_______________________________________________ <br>Blinux-list mailing list <br><a dir="ltr" href="mailto:Blinux-list@redhat.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">Blinux-list@redhat.com</a> <br><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list</a> <br><div class="mail__original_custom_closing_class"></div></div_wrapper></div></body></html>