[nfbcs] Sonar or Vinux

[John J. Boyer via nfbcs]

I have had good experienceds with Vinux 4.0. It performs nicely. The 
latest version of Ubuntu isn't necessarily the best. I have Ubuntu 
14.04 on another machine. It is full of bugs. In fact, it seems to be 
the bleeding edge.

John

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 08:58:00AM -0500, John Heim via nfbcs wrote:
> What both sonar and vinux try to do is to install or enable all the
> fixes you have to do to make linux work for a blind person. Some of
> this stuff requires a great deal of knowledge of linux. For example,
> by default, the linux screen reader for the console does not work
> with serial speech synthesizers. So if you have a hardware speech
> synth that connects to the serial port, like a doubletalk, it won't
> work. You have to edit the kernel source code, comment out a line in
> a C  program, recompile the kernel and install it.
> 
> Actually, I am not entirely sure that either vinux or sonar come
> with a kernel patched for serial hardware synths. And I don't want
> to make it seem like linux is all that terrible for anybody with a
> reasonable understanding of computers. I mean, dealing with this
> kind of gotcha is exactly what we do for a living. That is sort of
> what being a computer nerd is. But even if you are fairly
> knowledgeable about Windows it is going to take some time to acquire
> the knowledge you need for linux. Sonar and vinux can help with
> that.
> 
> On 05/21/14 20:17, Jim Barbour via nfbcs wrote:
> >I'm afraid I've never used sonar.  I've played with Vinux, which is
> >ubuntu with various screen readers (yasr, SpeakUp, Orca) along with
> >some documentation.
> >
> >John is probably much more able to talk about the differences than I.
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 08:05:16PM -0500, 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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