Re: Solaris 10 released, with accessibility built-in! Also FreeTTS1.2 released.

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Kenny, Ken,

Solaris 10 is a shipping UNIX that is based on GNOME 2.6.x with
accessibility components from GNOME 2.8.x, our 1.7 branch of accessible
Mozilla, and lots of other goodies (details in my blog).  But I don't mean
to claim it is "the best access to the GNOME desktop" - if I implied that
anywhere, it wasn't my intention.  It is, to my knowledge, the only
commercially shipping accessible GNOME desktop, which is a different
statement.

As Bill Haneman noted, Solaris 10 is (of necessity) behind GNOME HEAD, which
has yet still more bug fixes, improvements, etc. beyond what is in Solaris
10.

Ken - I'm delighted to hear about what will be going into Fedora Core 4. 
The more (accessible UNIX or GNU/Linux systems) the merrier! 


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I already run Debian unstable with some packages built from source.
> 
> At the risk of starting a flame war, I like Debian over Redhat/Fedora.
> 
> My interest in Solaris was because of a message on the blinux list from
> Peter Korn stating the best access to the Gnome desktop was with the
> latest release of Solaris.  I would like to try it to see how close my
> access to Gnome in Linux compares with the access to Gnome in Solaris.
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:34:27AM -0800, Ken Perry wrote:
> >
> >
> > I downloaed it with Widnows XP but know this it is not the best
> > accessiblity in fact Core 4 will ahve the same stuff Solaris 10 has
> > thats Fedora Core 4 in fact if you can upgrade to the beta core 4 in
> > march it will have everything this release of Solaris had.
> >
> > KenOn Tue, 1 Mar
> > 2005, Kenny
> > Hitt wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.  I'm just wondering if any one has managed to download this using a
> > > Linux system?
> > >
> > > I can't seem to regester with elinks 0.10.2 or lynx 2.8.5.
> > >
> > > Parts of the site are accessible with Mozilla, but I keep running into
> > > garbage text for some parts of the page.  If I compare results from
> > > elinks and lynx to what I get with Mozilla, maybe I can eventually
> > > figure things out.
> > >
> > > Since the release info suggests Solaris will provide the best
> > > accessibility to Gnome, I would like to try it.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >           Kenny
> > >
> > > PS  I understand I will have use either a serial console or a ssh
> > > session to do the install, but that is acceptable as long as I can get
> > > it up and running.
> > >
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