[nfbcs] Linux

[Jude DaShiell]

Here's something else to understand about Linux.  Distributions come in 
two different flavors in terms of updates.  Many flavors of Linux use 
the Freeze/release model where things are debugged and developed then 
everything is frozen for a little time then a new version is announced 
and made available for download.  Slackware and Debian do this as does 
Fedora except for Rawhide.  Then you got the rolling release model which 
makes updates available as soon as packages can be built for them and 
there are no major version updates.  One form of rolling release Linux 
is Arch and another flavor of that an accessibility variant will be 
coming out soon called sonar.  The sonar-project used to use Ubuntu for 
its base distribution but that is going to change shortly to Arch since 
Ubuntu was too slow with providing acessibility updates.  To read about 
and download sonar, http://www.sonar-project.org/ but check that site 
for the gnome 3..10 sonar version since that will have switched over to 
Arch and you'll get accessibility updates when they become available.

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Jim Barbour wrote:

> 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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