[nfbcs] Sonar or Vinux

[Jim Barbour via nfbcs]

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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