I do not think you looked around enough on the vinux.org.uk site or any of it's mirrors. The Libra live CD is just for those individuals and institutions that have to worry about such licences. Even if you choose the Libra edition, nothing stops you from checking multiverse and such in the Software Sources dialog and downloading any Ubuntu Lucid package.
If you look further down the download page, pastthe the first, download link, you will find a few other editions. There is the standard CD sized edition, which has EasyInstall icons on the desktop and in the menus for installing groups of applications, like Graphics, Office, Multi-media, and OCR. There is a special EasyInstall icon to for such Codecs. I think all of the EasyInstall scripts are even available in the Libra edition, possibly with the exception of the Codecs script.
There is also a full featured DVD sized edition with all of those groups installed plus some. On the virtual site, there is also a pre-configured Virtual edition and an USB live edition with persistent storage.
Actually, the graphical update system should be avoided at this time. There aare a couple of packages that are pinned so they are prevented from updating over a special stable version when using apt-get. Currently, the graphical aptitude program does not honor these pinned packages and will screw up the speech! Therefore, stick to installing and updating with 'sudo apt-get install package-name' until this gets figured out.
Don MarangThere is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
Dean Kamen -------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 9:40 AM To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: Re: programming on Windows (was RE: Any support/suggestions for a blind student)
Well, I tried to get it but never managed to get my pc to boot up with it. Tried using it on an old pc. Heard you can install linux using a serial cable and another pc as a terminal. May try that some day. Also, disturbingly, it seems someone has gone and made Vinux completely strictly libra open source as in, won't download or install anything not libra or open source. Even edited the script file to make it that much harder for you. People have had a hard time doing such mundane things as playing mp3 files with it because the media player included only plays ogg files since they are open source and mp3 is closed source. This is making me want to stay away from vinux. I want to be FREE yes, FREE, I said, to pick and choose whatever app I want to install on my own machine. If I want to, I'll install a closed source, and if I want to, I'll install an open source. I don't want some system preventing me from exercising that freedom. Perhaps this is hearsay but if it's not, whoever implemented this policy is just as bad as any closed source vendor they despise since they are also restricting the end user's freedom in some way. Sorry, didn't mean to rant that much. I had to grab a dvd burning software to open the iso file only to find out that it's probably not all its cracked up to be. This burning software appears to have ruined my cd/dvd burner at home. Stay away from img burn, btw. Alex M On 8/30/10, black ares <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:you can search for orca accessible applications. There you will find the list. Vinux is very beauty full, but still have the general linux problems, problems that make me to stay away from it. But, Vinux team has made a lot of efort to create a distro that is very suited for blind people.Also it is a repaired one, more problems that I've encountered in the granddistros (fedora, ubuntu) disappeared from Vinux.Mainly, the only problem I have with vinux is that, when I plug my phones on to my laptop, the speakers don't get muted and I found no configuration todo jack sense. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:35 AMSubject: Re: programming on Windows (was RE: Any support/suggestions for ablind student)I'd heard of Vinux but hadn't ever looked into it. I'm enormously intrigued. I may create a live cd and try it out on an old pc I've got in my tool closet just collecting dust. Does there exist a comprehensive list or, even a small one, of all the accessible apps for Linux? Any of them taht are just absolutely, in no way accessible? Any link would be appreciated. Also, you are welcome to e-mail me privately so we don't spam the list with off topic stuff. Thank for the link. Alex M On 8/30/10, Don Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:If the only reason to install XP is to run SigWin, why not just install the real thing? Try Vinux, a blind friendly distribution of Ubuntu. It provides and configures several screen readers, like SpeakUp for it'sconsoles and Orca for the gnome GUI desktop. It also has two magnifiers. The Vinux community is solving many of the Linux accessibility and voicestability issues. It has a fully accessible installer that can either usethe entire internal drive or install side by side with Windows for a dualboot configuration. It can also run from a live disk, a USB pen drive, or a Virtual Machine. Check out http://vinux.org.uk I just added a bash script, speedy-ocr, to the Vinux repository which uses the free tesseract or cuneiform OCR software to provide simplified scanning and performing OCR on any image file or files. Don Marang There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter. Dean Kamen -------------------------------------------------- From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:50 AM To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: RE: programming on Windows (was RE: Any support/suggestions fora blind student)Thank you very much for these resources, they may be useful at home if I can end up installing Windows XP myself using screen narrator. None ofthese resources will be useful at work since we work in a locked down software environment. Anything not already approved for use costs dollars and takes a year to get approved if everyone does everythingright all along the line for the software approval. That doesn't alwayshappen either. Screen readers for Linux do exist and the Mac has VoiceOver but Linux has http://www.linuxspeakup.org/ andhttp://speakupmodified.org/ among others to examine. Screen readers are like Center Fielders with catching gloves on both hands. If right field is input and left field is output and center field are peripherals, andinteraction in that system is considered the ball, the interactionbetween keyboard and computer is caught translated and spoken as is the text going from computer to screen. Sometimes done with sound cards andhardware speech synthesizers any more these days once there was a time when the Screen Rover did it differently. A camera was set up so it could capture the screen and O.C.R. was done on camera input which was converted to computer ascii and that ascii was then sent to a hardwarescreen reader. Unfortunately screen rover went off the market since ifit hadn't blind people probably would been lots more effective reading more sites and not having to deal with all of these accessibility issues. The reason for me to install windows xp on a home computer at all is to perhaps install cygwin and/or mingw and djgpp utilities and see what type of unix-like development I can do successfully on thatplatform. Since I can't do this at work, I'm willing to experiment witha computer at home. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of arachna@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 17:45 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: programming on Windows (was RE: Any support/suggestions for a blind student) I ran across the following post in the list archives by accident when searching for something with Google and it piqued my curiousity: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" wrote on 16 March 2010:As I see it, Microsoft made two mistakes with Windows which untilthey're corrected the best software for those of us with no memory of vision to program for will be Linux in its varied forms.First, the command line interface was made into a very poorly equippedenvironment for software development.Windows to my knowledge to date no xenity equivalents yet exist for anySecond, if someone does console-based development of software withinsupported software development package now running on Windows; I would love to becorrected on this point if at all possible even if packages under activedevelopment are all that can be offered as suggestions. Would dialog be a decent replacement for zenity on Windows? I have a how-to on building dialog for OpenWatcom here: http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Dialog_howto It's very similar to build it on mingw and msys. There are just a few less places to patches. I can put together the mingw patch if someone needs it. By the way, did a quick search of zenity and win32 to check if someone had ported it yet and ran across this: http://www.placella.com/software/zenity/I've been experimenting with the idea of using dialog with bash or v8cgito create menus that will work in or out of X Windows on FreeBSD andLinux. Since I like to program cross-platform, the menus would work onWindows just as well. There are at least 3 versions of bash I know of for Windows. Cygwin, djgpp and msys all have one. Here's a stand-alone package based on Cygwin: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/bash/ The other tool I've been looking at for cross-platform scripting that I'm really starting to like is v8cgi: http://code.google.com/p/v8cgi/ Syntax will be more familiar to C/C++ programmers than bash is. Since I'm not a blind user, I've been wondering just how the visually impaired use console based tools. Does the terminal emulator or some such software read the information out loud, because the programsthemselves usually don't add speech capability? Read an example on theINX list where someone used tee and sent the information to espeak aswell as the menu. I was wondering how hard it would be to add an option to dialog that sent the information it drew out to another program likeespeak. However, if a screen reader program already exists and works fine with dialog and other software, that would be a more general purpose solution. The other option I've been checking into is using the browser and Javascript for the programming environment, but the one thing still lacking is being able to shell out to other local programs and use theresults. There are some work-arounds for this specific to browsers, butI'm waiting to find out if a more portable solution becomes available. What I'd really like is a merge of a Javascript server side language like v8cgi with the ability to create an interface like a browser can.Of course, since it could do local file access, the Internet access part should probably be shut off for security reasons. The other drawback tothe browser approach is that relatively few console based or light weight browsers fully support Javascript and css standards. Would be curious to know what's lacking in the Windows console environment for software development that's available in other environments like Linux. I use mingw and msys all the time for quick console development. I use the DOS command prompt and have customized it to a way I'm comfortable with, but other options like Console 2 areavailable and I believe Cygwin has a limited port of rxvt. There are anumber of good compilers that work from console mode, including mingw,djgpp and OpenWatcom. There are also some decent shell script languagessuch as bash if batch files aren't enough. I haven't found anyinformation on ncurses working on Windows, but you do have pdcurses. Ialso I read about a Windows port of vifm to Windows, so I would guess that means s-lang is available as well.Couldn't resist discussing this topic even though the original post wasfrom some time ago. I've been very interested in some of the subjects and would enjoy hearing other programmers viewpoints on them as well. 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