Running Linux under windows?

[Tony Baechler]

No, for a few reasons.  First, it isn't officially part of Debian or 
Ubuntu and I'm not sure how often it's updated or how often new packages 
are added.  Second, my quick reading of the site is that it's a live CD 
which I don't want, although I read here that it is also a virtual 
machine.  Third, my hardware can't handle a VM right now and I already 
have a dedicated Linux machine with Debian.  Finally, I just haven't had 
the time to look at it except for a minute, so there could be a lot that 
I'm missing.  Also, as a matter of my own opinion, I dislike the idea of 
running a special distro designed for a particular disability, in this 
case the blind.  I would much rather use a mainline distro such as 
Debian which includes a lot of the same accessibility tools already 
available as packages or Ubuntu which installs Orca by default.  The 
sighted public don't use a special distro especially for them, so why 
should I use one especially for the blind?  Samuel Thibault has done a 
tremendous amount of work with Debian accessibility to the point that 
even the installer works with hardware speech and plans are being made 
to support software speech as well.  Since Ubuntu pulls from Debian and 
Vinux borrows from Ubuntu, why not just go to the source in the first 
place?  By source, I don't mean source code, I mean the source of the 
packages, specifically Debian.

Geetha Shamanna wrote:
> Have you tried Vinux?
>