"Mr. Jim Vaglia" wrote: > What assistive technology if any will run on FreeBSD? Is this > what Mac and Voice Over is based on? Many blind people are mostlikely > not interested in paying high cost of Windows Vista. Thanks for > spreading the word among the public if all people with physical > disabilities and impairments are able to use FreeBSD? Totally, blind > from birth, totally in the *dark* on this OS. LOL
One problem: (last I knew), FreeBSD only has a graphical installer, not Ascii text mode. So you might need somoene else to install it for you. (That's of course doing a standard install off the cdrom or floppy & net; if you happen to be a Unix expert there are ways of installing using command line only, eg installing a spare disk on a PC, installing software, moving disk to new PC: all of that could be done in single line mode commands, possibly with one of those Ascii to braille 40 char. adapters a friend told me of 2 decades back, so might be possible but tricky. Last I heard NetBSD still offers a line mode installer http://www.netbsd.org NetBSD has less ported packages than FreeBSD but otherwise is similar. (well, more similar than eg Linux or Microsoft :-) Apart from what Salvatore Albanese just mentioned, (hope you got it, not cc'd) ... It's also possible freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org might have heard of other hardware. Then again, as NetBSD is more hardware oriented, those people may have heard of more controllable devices. PS for anyone wondering, No, I'm no troll for NetBSD, nearly all my many machines are FreeBSD, but NetBSD does have some advantages in some places. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
