Linux livecd with brailleaccess.

Christian Schoepplein chris at schoeppi.net
Sat Feb 4 20:22:15 UTC 2006


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On Sa, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:39:52 +0100, william windels wrote:
>Yes, there is: knoppix.
>dowload on _w_w_w_._k_n_o_p_p_i_x_._n_e_t.
>To start the brailledisplay  after starting cd, type
>brltty=type,port,brailletable
>(enter)
>The keyboard is by default querty I think.
> 
>But, you can not install this live-cd on the hd.
>I mean: you can but it's very unstable.

Knoppix uses debian unstable.

>I think you can do this with kanotix (also debian-based) but this cd has no
>braille-support :(

Another cool distro with braille support is GRML. It is a Live CD with 
many textbased tools, grafical envirorments aren't on this distro. IMHO 
brltty is used for braille support.

Regards,
Schoepp

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