[nfbcs] Sonar or Vinux

Sat May 31 10:00:15 UTC 2014

SecureCRT is at
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/ 
It costs $70, and works well with JAWS 15.

Regards
Louis Maher
Phone 713-444-7838
E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ian C. Bray via
nfbcs
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 10:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Sonar or Vinux

I agree with you, Jim.
If the SSH client works well enough, there are enough other NFS / SAMBA /
ETC clients available for file management.
I just need an SSH client that will work for me.
Is SecureCRT SecureSSH free?

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Barbour via nfbcs" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
To: "Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Sonar or Vinux

>I will point out that this is why I'm not a fan of either distro.  The
> blindness world isn't big enough to command a lot of attention.  The
> attention we get should be focused on making the distros themselves
> easier for us to use.  Efforts that try to fork distros, like Ubuntu
> and arch, into blindness focused ones, like vinux and sonar, do not
> really help the situation.
>
> Further, a blind person isn't going to be able to require that all
> unix machines they manage run a blindness friendly distro; so this
> definately doesn't help blind folks get LInux related employment.
>
> JIm
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:02:19AM -0400, Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs 
> wrote:
>> That's pretty much how it happened. Bill was basically project lead and 
>> took
>> over everything with some guy from Ubuntu who was back and forth, think 
>> his
>> name was tony. Or maybe that was the main guy, it's been a while. 
>> Eventually
>> he just gave it up. My biggest issue is a lot of people call it a "secure
>> OS," including commtechusa if you care to look at that site. I was just
>> curious what they offered. Last I looked, Vinux recommended not updating 
>> and
>> they were on an older version of Ubuntu--both not really paths to 
>> security.
>> The updates was because things would break, but that still means you're 
>> not
>> all that secure if you ever leave your house and your personal router.
>> On 5/22/2014 9:44 AM, John Heim via nfbcs wrote:
>> >My experience as of about 1 year ago was that sonar was a way more
>> >polished product than vinux. I've seen a lot of questions about vinux 
>> >like
>> >when is the new version coming out, why is it still based on some old
>> >version of ubuntu. Like so many open source projects, there was probably
>> >one person, maybe two, driving the project and when they ran out of 
>> >steam,
>> >the project slowed to a crawl.
>> >
>> >I was so impressed with sonar that I put it on my machine at home. And I
>> >put it on what I call my drop dead emergency machine here at work. Sonar
>> >is that solid.
>> >
>> >The one problem I have with sonar is that they are switching from basing
>> >their distro on ubuntu to basing it on arch linux. I will probably drop
>> >sonar once that conversion is complete. I have to stay with a debian 
>> >fork
>> >because my job is to support debian.  What I'd really like is to have
>> >debian be so accessible that we wouldn't need either sonar or vinux. 
>> >Well,
>> >one can dream.
>> >
>> >On 05/21/14 20:05, David Andrews via nfbcs wrote:
>> >>Hi Jim et al:
>> >>
>> >>I have a Windows XP laptop that I am thinking of installing a Linux
>> >>system on, to play and learn a little.  What are
>> >>advantages/disadvantages to Sonar versus Vinux?
>> >>
>> >>Dave
>> >>
>> >>
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>> -- 
>> Take care,
>> Ty
>> http://tds-solutions.net
>> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he 
>> that dares not reason is a slave.
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