[nfbcs] sGnome

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello:

     I just finished up a course and used brltty with a braille display on 
Linux. The course was using RedHat Version 7, so I ended up using Fedora 
Core 4. This was because the driectory structures were more or less the same 
or at least close enough for the class. Starting with Fedora core 4, brltty 
and I think Orca is included in the package. The command line interface 
worked fine and I made 100 percent on the skills final.

Regards,

Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] sGnome


> Is the 's' in the subject line a typo?
>
> Gnome is a GUI environment that runs on top of the _X windows system_,
> which runs on many UNIX systems including Linux.
>
> Orca is a screen reader that works with Gnome
>
> In my opinion, it's still pretty slow, and not really ready for prime
> time. However, there are many other people use it and like it.
>
> One thing though. Many of the coordinators of the orca project work at
> Sun, and I'm worried about their future now that Sun has been acquired
> by Oracle.  That is, I don't know what's going to happen with those
> folks.
>
> If you're looking for non GUI Linux access (i.e. you don't need to run
> Gnome based GUI applications), then there are other options for
> accessing Linux.  They include console based screen readers, including
> yasr and speakup; and ssh clients that run on windows machines.  With
> an ssh client, you login to a Linux machine remotely by running a
> windows application such a putty.
>
> I hope this information helps, and am happy to answer questions.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:44:45PM -0400, Joe Orozco wrote:
>> If you use Linux, this project may be of interest to you, if you don't 
>> know
>> about it already.  It's an alternative desktop interface.  I'm looking 
>> into
>> other platforms and so apologize if this project is already common
>> knowledge:
>>
>> http://www.gnome.org/about/why.html
>>
>> Joe
>>
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>> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
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