Hmm, how were you able to boot with speech? I didn’t think much of trying the 
mainstream distros, since I’ve heard that Unity isn’t accessible mostly.
Sent from my Mac.

Devin Prater
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> On Jul 1, 2016, at 6:11 AM, Scott Granados <sc...@qualityip.net> wrote:
> 
> How did you try to install it under VMWare?
> 
> One thing I had excellent luck with was Ubuntu under vmware fusion.  You can 
> install it and boot with speech and you pretty much use the normal image 
> creation tool, select the image, enter the type of Linux and give it a few 
> minutes to build a VM.
> 
> That might be something to try.
> 
>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 7:02 AM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com 
>> <mailto:d.pra...@me.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all. So on my path to learning Linux stuff, I’ve gotten Emacspeak to work 
>> with the help of Twitter folks, but now wanna see if Linux will be useful to 
>> me as a whole. I’ve gotten Fedora working, sort of, but there aren’t any 
>> blind-specific packages that I see on other Linux lists, so I now turn to 
>> Sonar. I’ve had VmWare Fusion for a while now, but using Sonar with it just 
>> fails after installation, nothing happens. So I got Virtual Box in order to 
>> play with an Android talking virtual machine, which stopped talking after 
>> updating talkback, and found that besides freezes, probably from it being 
>> Android, ported to x86 architecture, it ran pretty quickly and responsively, 
>> unlike VmWare unless you tweet settings in VMX files. So, are there any tips 
>> for more easily using Virtual Box, like adding iOS files to virtual machines 
>> and running them, when I tried it didn’t work, or anyone that has a Sonar 
>> Virtual machine that works in Virtual box, or VmWare somehow?
>> Sent from my Mac.
>> 
>> Devin Prater
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>> 
>> 
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