Fw: new to linux.....

[Janina Sajka]

Hello, vasile:

I believe most of us either Debian or Fedora. Some of us Slackware or
Gentoo, and a few of us use Suse or other distributions.

Most of us do not use gnome accessibility, at least not yet. You should
consider that environment is still expirimental.

Most of us use the Linux console environment with speech based
interfaces such as Speakup or Emacspeak. Many of us Brltty.

For installation you'll want either braille or speakup enabled
installation media. Both exist for Fedora, and I believe also for
Debian, Slack, and Gentoo.

I maintain an installation HOWTO that you should use, even if you decide
on some distribution other than Fedora. You can find this HOWTO at:

http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/HOWTO_INSTALL.html

One word of caution. The Speakup site has been very slow these last few
weeks. We are getting close to a new solution--but it's not available
yet, and I don't yet have a date when it might be available.

Here's what you can expect:

1.)	You should be able to install Linux without sighted assistance
using either braille or speech with a hardware speech synthesizer.

2.)	You should be able to configure your system for native use with
speech or braille -- or both, from the Linux console. You can do many
many things in this environment and it's worth learning about them.

3.)	You should not attempt to use gnome until you become more of an
expert on Linux--at least for now.

I hope this helps. Please continue to ask your questions.

vasile radu writes:
> then, what ar you (all) using and how get you your distro speaking?
> I've got a fedora core 3 and I have seen that this distro has the packages 
> necessary on it
> But mandrake (less in 10.1 version) give this packages in a distribution 
> named power pack wich cost less 60 $
> So in the free distribution of 3 cds they don't put this packages.
> I mean:
> at-spi
> gnome-speech
> atk
> and lib packages afferent
> So the work get harder on drake to get it speak.
> I have it installed for a mounth and I can not get it speak to me!!!
> It's verry desapointing and even if i want to get on linux, I am forced to 
> use windows for the moment until I'll understand and get a procedure to get 
> it speak even if I will format my partitions!!!
> So the problem is:
> What are you using and how get you it speak!!!
> 
> a happy new year
> /////////
> Radu Vasile
> Techinc Consultant in computers
> "better light a candle than curse the darkness"
> "follow the white rabbit"
> e-mail:
> vradu at constanta.astral.ro
> matematicianu at home.ro
> matematicianu2003 at yahoo.co.uk
> rvasile at gmail.com
> antropofagul2003 at yahoo.fr
> and soon others
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: new to linux.....
> 
> 
> >We're not ignoring you. I think the silence to your question only means
> >that there aren't very many of us using Mandrake.
> >
> >The only time I have personally met blind users on Mondrake was in
> >Denmark. The web address is:
> >
> >http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/brltty-logtext/mandrake91.html
> >
> >
> >vasile radu writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>Helo! I am new to linux and I am visual impaired.
> >>I tried to follow even one how to guide, but no one give a result.
> >>My question is direct and I want a answer on steps:
> >>Have any one mandrake 10.x and made it speak? If yes how!
> >>In hope that I'll finaly will hear something from my linux I wait your 
> >>answers.
> >>I am using mandrake 10.1 free version of 3 cds
> >>THANKS A LOT
> >>a happy new year
> >>/////////
> >>Radu Vasile
> >>Techinc Consultant in computers
> >>"better light a candle than curse the darkness"
> >>"follow the white rabbit"
> >>e-mail:
> >>vradu at constanta.astral.ro
> >>matematicianu at home.ro
> >>matematicianu2003 at yahoo.co.uk
> >>rvasile at gmail.com
> >>antropofagul2003 at yahoo.fr
> >>and soon others
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> >
> >Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
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> >
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.