Hello I kind of see the utility of this idea, yet this, I think, would be the least of my worries speaking as a person who went through the process you describe.
I actually had no trouble installing linux with talking orca with the directions that I got from the website. The trouble came after when it came to things like installing firefox 3.0 or making it so orca would not crash when I started playing audio. I remember that I had trouble getting some reading that I wanted to work. Apparently orca does not go sentence by sentence and when I posted this reading question to the orca list, I got a rather harsh reception from people accusing me of having neglected reading the directions. Fact of the matter is, there is no cure for the command line. If you use linux, you must use command line, and you may as well get a book and start reading because you won't get anything from a mailing list. Perhaps they would do well to make a linux for dummies mailing list. What I think is going on within the linux community is you have these power users, though perhaps essentially aveage joes who migrated from windows and did so by spending hours upon hours of reading linux literature. They are so fiercely proud of this accomplishment that they can't stand the idea of others taking up linux without passing the same struggle. I admit I relate a bit with my experiences on the macvisionaries list. More often than not, I have lately been tempted to send some snide remarks myself. I can't believe the seemingly dumb questions people ask on the list that could be easily answered through a few seconds of research. However, my shortlived experiences in the linux community and memories of my first experiences in mac os x have tought me the importance of not being that way on lists as it creates an extremely tense learning environment. But that is just the trade you get. You must choose between a list where everyone does their own research and answers their own questions, a list where newbies are shot down by proud power users, a list that is essentially useful to nobody if only as a source for update and development announcements, or a list where you can ask whatever and expect a good answer, whre yu see a lot of the same questions repeated and a bunch of dumb questions that you think should not have been posted at all, but a list that supports all and is essentially a good learning tool for all. Regards Justin Harford My soul, do not seek eternal lifeā¦ but exhaust the realm of the possible. Pindar On Dec 23, 2007, at 9:44 PM, mike coulombe wrote: > Hi, I forgot, the idea I just mentioned would assume a person > already had orca running on the live CD, and I assume the script > would only be able to kill orca if the setting in orca was set to > exit with out conformation. > Mike. > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility