On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 14:27 +1100, Trish Fraser wrote: 

> Hello All,
> 
> I am about to set up a USB stick as a bootable Linux installation for
> someone else who is blind. I am aware of the Adrienne audio desktop
> that comes with Knoppix, and that there is the Orca screenreader that
> some here use. I would appreciate any comments, recommendations or
> other suggestions, along with comments on pitfalls. One consideration
> is that they cannot use a braille output, they are a diabetic, and
> the regular pricking the finger to test the glucose levels makes a
> braille output device impracticable.
> 
> If there are comments about enabling audio at login, or boot time, and
> comments about various loaders that might be relevant, that too would
> be appreciated, this will be my first foray in putting any Linux onto
> a USB stick. I would not normally consider autologin, but there is
> reason that it might have merit for this scenario.

There's also Vinux - vinuxproject.org. I haven't followed development
there for about a year, but it was a good strong community then.

Cheers,

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Hi Trish,

I notice in your sig that you are using Mageia.   I was a true blue Mandrake/ Mandriva user for over a decade, but I needed a distro which maintained some mapping software I use, and the only one which was up-to-date was Suse, because the developer of the program was the maintainer of its RPMs in the SuSe repositories.

I tried Mageia myself, earlier, but I missed the PLF and easyurpmi.zarb.org which were key to my experience.  Oh, I was also a member of the Mandriva Club, and used to get the PowerPack versions of each release, and they were outstanding.

Running OpenSuSe 12.2 has its difficulties because it package management processes are very time consuming.  I sent some feedback to the developers but received no reply, and certainly nothing has changed.

Does Mageia have something similar to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org on their side?  How do they handle the non-free stuff like Adobe Reader, and Flash?


Andrew Greig