Hi there,As far as I know, Vinux, since it's based on Ubuntu, hasn't made changes into the operating system. The only thing is accessibility which has been preconfigured. So, in a sense, it's like installing your backed up Ubuntu onto your machine at work. I don't think it would cause any problems.
Thanks, Parham On 8/17/2011 3:00 PM, Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Alex. I'd quite like to use Vinux however everyone is meant to use the same distribution with the same sort of setup for ease of management issues. Thanks for the info though. Nick. Nick Adamson Software Engineer General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited Bryn Brithdir, Oakdale Business Park, Blackwood, South Wales, NP12 4AA Telephone: +44 (0)1495 23 6467 Email: Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website: www.generaldynamics.uk.com To help reduce waste paper, please only print this email if you really need to. -----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence Sent: 16 August 2011 18:28 To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] Re: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility. Hi. Yes, this is correct. In the gdm screen, you have the choice of opting for Classic instead of Unity as your desktop. If you do this, it's regular old Gnome. See if they'll let you install Vinux on your own machine. There's an 11.04 based build which comes configured by default to work well with accessibility. Just download the .iso file, burn to cd, turn off machine and pop in the drive and then go through the steps of installing it to your machine. Should cut down on start up time so you can be productive again. Otherwise, you'll have to configure stock Ubuntu yourself. I've never done this but have heard it can be a challenge without sighted assistance. http://www.vinux-project.org/ Good luck, Alex M On 8/16/11, Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi All. At work we use a couple of Ubuntu machines which I use with ORCA.We'recurrently on the 8.04 baseline but they are being upgraded to 11.04. As I understand it this release includes the new unity desktop by default but you can use the older style Gnome desktop. Does anyoneknowif this is write and how you go about it? Thanks. Nick. 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