Re: Help please. - Want to switch distro

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Olivier,

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>   
> > questions:
> > First of all, where could one obtain the latest Ubuntu? Is it somewhat
> > easy to install? Does Ubuntu have a package manager similar to Apt in
> > Debian or do you have to build from source? How about Orca, has it
> > reached the stage where a non-programmer can use it, or is Gnopernicus
> > to prefer if one isn't that good at modifying things using program
> > languages such as Python?
> > Thanks in advance for any answer.
> >     
>
> Ubuntu is debian based, so the package management system is the same as in Debian (APT). So you don't need to build from sources. 
>
> In my opinion, Orca is usable even for a non-programmer. There already are a lot of scripts which enable to access in a easy way applications such as gnome-metting, mozilla, open office etc... 

The Orca Ubuntu documentation page has a lot of information on obtaining 
Ubuntu & and getting Orca up and running on it.  Please see: 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuDapperDrake  Also, there is a vibrant 
Ubuntu accessibility community that may be able to help.  See 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/ and their mailing list at: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.