fedora20 on amd64 accessibility

[Jude DaShiell]

I can't recommend it.  The only way I could even get the installer disk to 
boot was to remove the hard drive from contact with connectors in the hard 
drive sled.  This was with a sata drive 1.4TB.  The hard drive with no 
partitions on it comes up too fast to allow the fedora20 installer disk to 
boot.  The installer disk was downloaded using bittorrent and verified 
after download with md5sum and gpgv.  Finally, I never managed to get orca 
talking at all.  Expected boot time was undocumented by someone who wrote 
up an accessibility update on fedora claiming it was quite accessible 
either.  Boot time I'll define as th number of minutes between when the 
disk starts spinning and when it's safe to type orca and hit the return 
key.  After all of that, I threw the fedora20 disk in the trash.  Neither 
debian nor talkingarch have any problems installing on these disks, so my 
speculation was intel hardware was used and not disclosed.  The fedora20 
image I downloaded was the one for the amd64 systems too.  This platform 
has a gig of memory on it and in time will be upgraded and may be below 
the acceptable memory minimum to install fedora20 and run orca.  That's 
the other reason I was interested in installing emacspeak as the sole 
screen reader for such a system.


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