a very challenging question?

[Kelly Prescott]

I install all the bsd  stuff all the time without assistance.
Like I said with qemu you just run it in a text console and speakup reads 
the text generated.
installation and regular interaction works fine.

kp

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Øyvind Lode wrote:

> I would like to try out freebsd, openbsd and the other *bsds but my understanding is that I cannot install them without sighted assistance.
> I currently use debian as a firewall, one file server, web server etc at home.
> All text mode only mainly administrated from windows over ssh but access to the console is important if networking is down and so on.
> On the console I use speakup with software speech.
> I have no interest in running X on these systems.
> At work I am the admin of some ubuntu servers which I administrer via ssh and these boxes is of course text mode only as well.
> *bsd is very good for all networking related services like firewalling/routing, fileservers etc due to a better ip stack.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott
> Sent: 24 December 2014 04:47
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Re: a very challenging question?
>
> I run freebsd, netbsd, and openbsd all the time.
> my setup looks like this:
> I run arch and use qemu for my virtual machines.
> All the bsd machines are virtual.
> I console to all of them and Linux Speakup handles the consoles as they
> are just text output.
> I can post more info if anyone is interested.
>
> -- Kelly Prescott
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Tim Chase wrote:
>
>> I haven't tested FreeBSD running any accessibility software locally,
>> accessing FreeBSD boxes mostly via SSH. Speakup is a Linux-specific
>> set of patches and thus unavailable on FreeBSD.  But the Speech
>> Dispatcher daemon (speechd) appears to be in the FreeBSD ports
>> collection, as do both Festival and Flite soft-synths, along with
>> Orca and yasr.  Both Orca and yasr should be able to connect to
>> speechd, and that should be able to talk to either of the soft-synths
>> above or to any supported hardware synth.  I'm hoping to acquire an
>> older netbook that my sister-in-law intends to discard, in which case
>> I can try throwing FreeBSD on there and test accessibility options
>> but it might not be until sometime in the new year.
>>
>> Regarding yasr and single consoles, might I recommend that you
>> investigate "tmux" or possibly GNU Screen?  You can spawn yasr, and
>> then as your first command, launch screen/tmux to multiplex multiple
>> sessions into that one screen-reader session.  One of the nice things
>> is that you can detach from your active session and then reattach via
>> SSH to have all your windows/shells as you left them.  Once you're
>> done accessing it remotely, you can detach, then reattach back within
>> yasr and everything is still as you left it.  It's awesomely powerful
>> and sounds like the perfect solution to your annoyance with the
>> single-console nature of yasr.  While yasr may be a bit old and
>> dusty, it's done most of what I've wanted to do when I've poked at it.
>>
>> I wrote up a brief explanation/tutorial on tmux for the Raspberry VI
>> mailing list which Mike Ray posted at the wiki:
>>
>> http://www.raspberryvi.org/wiki/doku.php/tmux
>>
>> If you have any more questions, I can't guarantee that I'd know the
>> answers, but I'd be more than happy to chase them down to the best of
>> my abilities (and hardware)
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> -tim
>>
>>
>> On December 23, 2014, Kyle wrote:
>>> I've wanted to play with FreeBSD or another sort of *real* BSD that
>>> hasn't been tainted by Apple for quite a few years. However, I am
>>> stopped thus far by a lack of a fully functional screen reader.
>>> GhostBSD is really nice, as it is said to run the MATE desktop now,
>>> but the problem is that Orca doesn't speak because of a Python
>>> conflict that causes it to fail to talk to speech-dispatcher. This
>>> would limit me to the command line, where the only full-featured
>>> screen readers run on Linux only as far as I am aware. Speakup is a
>>> set of modules that are specific to the Linux kernel, and SBL as
>>> far as I know only runs on Linux. The only other choice then would
>>> be YASR, which is rather old and is probably unmaintained now, and
>>> runs as a subshell rather than as a system daemon, so one must
>>> login without speech and run the YSR subshell manually in order to
>>> get a somewhat decent screen reader for only a single virtual
>>> console. This isn't really a problem if you intend to run your
>>> FreeBSD machine remotely over ssh or telnet, but it makes running
>>> it directly on your machine next to impossible. Please do correct
>>> me if I happen to be wrong, as I would immediately try to set it up
>>> here, at least on a virtual machine, and I could then support BSD
>>> as well as Linux in the computer business that I run. -- "Don't
>>> judge my disability until you are able to see my ability." ~Kyle:
>>> https://kyle.tk/ My chunk of the internet:
>>> https://chunkhost.com/r/Kyle
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