Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Operating Systems

Hi :)

The 'main man' at DistroWatch is Ladislav Bodnar
distro@distrowatch.com
But Jessse Smith often writes reviews and Caitlyn Martin is sometimes involved.  


It's a small organisation! But it does have quite a lot of readers and is the 
only site of it's kind that covers such a vast percentage of the distros out 
there.  Most sites list about 20, one manages 100 but DW has detailed pages for 
about 600.  Pages are in a standard format so it's easy to look-up stuff such as 
forums, website addresses or to compare against other distros.  Pages such as
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vinux
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=knoppix
I think those can be shortened to 
http://distrowatch.com/ubuntu
and so on as it redirects, i think.

There are  250 more distros listed on it's waiting list that don't have there 
own pages yet but do have about as much description as most other such sites 
have for their tiny lists!  Most distros are very specialist or aimed at 
specific languages but a few are aimed at being noob-friendly such as Ubuntu, 
Mint, Vinux, and so on.

if you could pass on my initial request for a review that would be great as 
Yahoo doesn't handle mailing lists well unless i break it so that it doesn't 
work in normal emailing usage.  


A regular there, BarnabyH, has offered to write something but
1.  It is likely to be several weeks away if at all as he seems busy
2.  I think he is fully sighted so even though he works with partially-sighted 
or non-sighted he might miss things despite enthusiasm
http://all-things-linux.blogspot.com/p/about_29.html
So, perhaps a collaborative effort is possible?

There is no reward for the review and probably no fame or glamour either but it 
would be great as a small way to promote non-sighted or partial-sighted issues.  

Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Christophe Strobbe <Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
To: accessibility@libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 15 April, 2011 10:14:38
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Operating Systems

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:28:09 +0100 (BST), Tom Davies
<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> Has anyone tried linux operating systems such as Knoppix-Adriene or
Vinux?
> Has 
> anyone managed to install either of those as a dual-boot alongside
> Windows? or 
> on a usb-stick or something?

No, I haven't done that yet, but there are people on the
Ubuntu-Accessibility and the Gnome-Accessiblity lists who know Vinux. 
You can search the archives at
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility> and
<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list>.

I can also forward the request for you, if you can give me precise contact
details etc (e.g. who should be contacted at Distrowatch).

Best regards,

Christophe

> A few people at DistroWatch have asked if anyone could volunteer to
write
> a 
> review of Vinux.  A couple asked if it could compare Vinux against other
> distros 
> aimed at people that are either completely blind or partially sighted.  
>
>
> For those that don't follow DW the reviews are generally about a page or
2
> long 
> (whatever that means!) and sometimes have screen-shots to break it up a
> bit and 
> make it more interesting for sighted-people.  DW doesn't pay for reviews
> and is 
> run by volunteers.  The Readers Comments can be a little unkind and
> thoughtless 
> at times but then other readers tend to jump in and defend the reviewer.
>
> Oh, here is this weeks DistroWatch weekly
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110411
> This next link will be the one for next week but the link wont work
until
> Monday
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110418
>
> It might be interesting to shake things up a bit by submitting a review
> that is 
> a voice recording rather than written?  Perhaps something else could be
> used 
> instead of pictures?  Almost no-one would be able to read braille at DW
(i 
> think) but there must be something that could make the review
> interestingly 
> different?
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
> My apologies for such a long post!
> Good luck and many regards from
> Tom :)

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