[nfbcs] Linux

[Jim Barbour]

Hey Suzanne,

I would say a few things about this...

First, you might play around with Linux and see if you need a
magnifier at all.  It may be that you'll be able to configure the font
sizes in your terminal, editor (emacs is good but there are others),
and other apps so that you'll be able to read them.  If you can
effectively do this, I think you'll be happier with it than the pan
and zoom magnification model.

As for which distro to use, I'd strong recommend that you use the
distro that your university suggests.  They'll be in a much better
position to support you that way.

The main reason not to follow my above recomendation is if you need to
install and learn orca, which is the Linux screen reader.  In that
case, I'd check and see what orca recommends for a distribution.
You'll care about this because you'll want orca updates early, so you
should be on whatever their developing on and so building installers
for first.

I hope this can get you started.

Feel free to contact me with more questions.

Thanks,

Jim barbour - jbar at barcore.com

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 11:56:16AM -0700, Suzanne Germano wrote:
> I am a low vision user so with mac I use mac zoom and windows I use
> Zoomtext. I want to install a linux vm on my macbook. Which one is the
> best? What is the best magnification application. I saw that KDE has a
> magnifier. I am a computer science student so will be using it for
> development.
> 
> Thank you
> Suzanne
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