Hi Tom,
Using your post to play single catch up.
First, when I told Jay about your suggesting he might not need video, he
laughed quite allot. Thanks for that by the way. Although an engineer
for AMD, hope I spelled that correctly..the motherboard people?, he is
firmly a windows soul. Command Line is not an arena he is strong in,
especially without a monitor.
He has declined joining the list for now. He will, however, be getting
the post where Andrew sends him to the Debian pages, and the wisdom about
preparing for a USB install process.
We already have the computer hardware, I shared those specifications in
another thread.
I will not be revisiting the discussion about installing any of Debian
access elements. As stated those are medically and physically off the
table, neither relevant to my disability experience, nor the focus of
this Linux box.
In fact, while Jay was here yesterday, I let him watch me access several
different shell environments, using my DOS computer and its speech.
I showed him my shellwourld one, the Ubuntu one dreamhost uses, the KTE??
one for the VPN currently running tawb, with Firefox.
Additionally I will be running tunin, using hopefully the mpv script that
interfaces with their services on this Linux box.
I may do other things as well, again its local nature gives me access to
items, shells do not provide so to speak.
I respect Debian can be a learning curve.
Will perhaps send him to a comparative Ubuntu page to the Debian wiki,
just in case.
The Debian motivation flows from a place to ask, as I am doing here.
Andrew referenced the local Toronto lug, I am in their list, started my
questions there, but got no response indicating interest.
One thing I want to ask about, in case I should make this possible has to
do with establishing a location for things like networking, IP addresses,
dNS if important, mail should I choose to use it, likely, those sorts of
things.
I own a domain that while registered, is not currently hosted anywhere.
For the sake of things like what I note above, along with a security
practice Shellworld uses that I intend incorporating, i. e. establishing a
different port for ssh,
would it not be wise to establish my box with this identity, using the
domain?
Thanks so much,
Kare
On Sun, 8 Nov 2026, [email protected] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 08, 2026 at 12:45:43PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Andrew,
One correction from another post, and a kind nudge before I work through
this later.
Someone suggested that the stand alone Linux box which will have no
installed screen reader or anything does not need video support.
First, the engineer who lives in Toronto, where I live, does not experience
sight loss, so needs that video support.
Not necessarily, but possibly. That depends a lot on whether that
person is comfortable with command line. For example I very much
prefer the non-graphical install and only use the graphics when
teaching other people I positively know they are more comfy with
a GUI.
Second, while screen readers do not need monitors so to speak, they do
require video cards, so, yes I would care about this.
That again depends on wheter your Linux box is "just" providing a shell
service. Then the only screen reader involved will be that on your DOS
box, from which you log in. That one needs a video card. Your Linux box
won't (if the premise above is right).
[...]
My goal, for a non Linux, but very sighted engineer, is some recipe
instructions for installing a Debian console or shell, instead of a
graphical desktop.
It would be nice if you could nudge that engineer to take part in
this conversation. More brains lead to better results :-)
You are still a prince too,
Andy is among the nicest persons in this list, yes.
Cheers
--
tom??s
