for special purpose Lucid or Maverick?
Hi, I need your advice because I have no knowledge about. We will donate a computer to a smaal organization running a house for visually impaired children and orphans. They do'nt have access to the internet. So the computer, of course with the help of Orca, can be a great help for education etc. and also to play some games. I installed Maverick and Orca 3.1.1 but can somebody confirm if this is the better choice than Lucid LTS? I think the computer will be used untill the hardware dies without updating in the meanwhile. Thanks in advance. Milton-- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick?
Milton: I've been using lucid with Orca 2.30.2 for several months now and it works quite fine. Best wishes, Marion! Am 20.05.2011 13:25, schrieb Milton: Hi, I need your advice because I have no knowledge about. We will donate a computer to a smaal organization running a house for visually impaired children and orphans. They do'nt have access to the internet. So the computer, of course with the help of Orca, can be a great help for education etc. and also to play some games. I installed Maverick and Orca 3.1.1 but can somebody confirm if this is the better choice than Lucid LTS? I think the computer will be used untill the hardware dies without updating in the meanwhile. Thanks in advance. Milton -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick?
Am I right that speakup is only for the virtual console? Is there a tutorial how to install and use it? - Original Message - From: Pia pmik...@comcast.net To: Milton mil...@tomaatnet.nl Cc: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:37 PM Subject: Re: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick? I would get Lucid and update it to as recent of an installation as possible by downloading the 10.04.2 iso and once you have everything installed that you need, I would run an aptitude full-upgrade My reasoning for this is that even though they may never update it again, Lucid, being an LTS is more focused on stability rather than features, and you are going to want a computer that has as little trouble as possible without a tech support person right there and no Internet connection. Also, I have found Lucid to work beautifully with speakup. Orca isn't really developed as rapidly as it was when Willy was in charge of it and so, it isn't like in the better days when a new distro release meant leaps and bounds forward in the screen reader department. So, I also have found Orca works about as good on both. HTH, Pia On Fri, 20 May 2011, Milton wrote: Hi, I need your advice because I have no knowledge about. We will donate a computer to a smaal organization running a house for visually impaired children and orphans. They do'nt have access to the internet. So the computer, of course with the help of Orca, can be a great help for education etc. and also to play some games. I installed Maverick and Orca 3.1.1 but can somebody confirm if this is the better choice than Lucid LTS? I think the computer will be used untill the hardware dies without updating in the meanwhile. Thanks in advance. Milton -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Listening to my Music Collection in Natty?
Hi, group! When I try using rhythmbox, my music library and radio stations are not saved between sessions; player rebuilds the database on each launch, slowing Orca during this process. When I use banchee, my entire system seems unresponsive. I even tried killing Orca before launching Banchee, and left the machine for about 40 minutes. On my return, I found the fan running at top speed, and no keyboard input possible; I had to just pull the power switch. What are people using, and how? Oh, BTW, I'm using Natty, having installed with the blindness profile and running the Classic Gnome desktop. Thanks, Dave -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Listening to my Music Collection in Natty?
I use mpd and mpc or mplayer depending on what I'm doing but then I don't mind command line stuff. mpc is fairly easy to figure out and the man page is very informative. mpd is not hard to configure either. mpc is just a plain command line app so it should run fine in gnome terminal or from a script or whatever. There are gtk mpd clients as well though I have not bothered to play with them. I have a very large music database which rhythmbox chokes on nicely but mpd has no trouble with. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Fw: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick?
I'm sorry, I forgot to reply to the list. Milton Hi Dave, Pia and Marion, Thanks for helping me out. I did not thought of Vinux. So I did a fresh install of Vinux 3.0.1 and also install Orca 3.1.1. So right now I have the stability of Lucid and the features of Maverick. Milton - Original Message - From: Dave Hunt To: Milton Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:43 PM Subject: Re: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick? I haven't tried all the edubuntu apps, but suspect that most are not accessible with Orca. Most of them are very game-like. I volunteer with a group of Harvard Medical School folks who install onto donated laptops and send them to orphanage schools in Latin America. The schools have no internet and limited space, hense the laptops and notebooks. Most of the students have no need of accessibility; it gets turned off after I do my installs. I often use a Vinux live cd for initial testing, shredding of the hard drive, etc. When I decide that a machine checks out, I do a regular install, with blindness profile. After applying os updates and installing the Edubuntu meta-package, I do a final bit of testing, then pronounce the machine fit. Donations with less than 256 mb ram get Knoppix. Cheers, Dave On 05/20/2011 10:31 AM, Milton wrote: How is Orca doing in Edubuntu? - Original Message - From: Dave Hunt To: Milton Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:13 PM Subject: Re: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick? Hi, I install edubuntu for similar purposes and find that Lucid or Maverick will suffice. Best, Dave On 05/20/2011 07:25 AM, Milton wrote: Hi, I need your advice because I have no knowledge about. We will donate a computer to a smaal organization running a house for visually impaired children and orphans. They do'nt have access to the internet. So the computer, of course with the help of Orca, can be a great help for education etc. and also to play some games. I installed Maverick and Orca 3.1.1 but can somebody confirm if this is the better choice than Lucid LTS? I think the computer will be used untill the hardware dies without updating in the meanwhile. Thanks in advance. Milton -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
