Re: Installing Linux on the Mac without sighted assitance?

2017-06-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
This is on my to do list, so I've done some research. Since you're doing this on a Macintosh host, you probably want to use the Macintosh disk partitioning utility to start. If your goal is a dual boot system, you can simply use Boot Camp for your linux. You'll also be able to access that

Re: help editinf files with audacity

2017-06-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I've had very little success with Audacity on Linux. There's nowhere near the level of accessibility on Windows or Macintosh. You can expect excellent success with command line tools like sox and ecasound. Both are enormously powerful and emminently worth learning, if you plan to do much, or even

Re: fedora 24 install failure

2017-06-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Le 27/06/2017 à 18:23, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : Even using flat review after having given user account credentials I couldn't find a quit button. The thing was, I did have the system recognize I had created a ser account and that account was at administrator level.

Re: help editinf files with audacity

2017-06-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Mark, you can also use Nama for trimming files. Like Willem's dae, Nama uses ecasound for the heavy lifting. And older but usable version of Nama can be found in official packages for Ubuntu/Debian/Devuan distributions. Here are the Nama commands to remove the first ten seconds of raw.mp3, and