Accessibility of installing Distros?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I could never get Jenux to work correctly on my setup.

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Brandt Steenkamp

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> On 17 Feb 2022, at 17:43, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Jenux might be a possibility if it can install archlinux on a system it
> will do that.  With odd hardware that's when things get interesting for
> most linux systems.  The killer with gentoo is you have to build your
> kernel with speech synthesizer support added and that takes a while.  You
> really have to have deep knowledge of your hardware otherwise you'll make
> bad choices in the kernel building and things won't work afterward on
> first boot.  The whole gentoo kernel build process could be massively
> simplified by having a switch with the kernel build software that tells
> the software that does the build to build with all hardware now enabled.
> Hardware that's not enabled won't be included but maybe that could be
> added and fixed later.  I never got enough into gentoo to know if that is
> possible.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 
>> Trisquel will install, whether you have the free wifi or not, in the latter
>> case, it just won't work, but your ethernet will.  Yep; Arch and Jentoo are
>> the tough ones.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/17/22 04:36, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Also, as I said, Trisquel also installed on this system without complaining
>>> at all.
>> 
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