Re: [orca-list] success with installing opensolaris using orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Josh:

Congratulations and thanks so much for sharing this.  Can you share 
more about which version of OpenSolaris you have used (I wasn't able to 
get eSpeak in until b101, but I wasn't aware it was publicly available 
yet), which access method you used, and more about your experiences?

Will

On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Josh Lambert wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have successfully installed opensolaris using orca.  I had very 
> little trouble with the installer, and had no trouble
> logging in to the new system.  Two things are annoying though.  First, 
> only the left alt and control keys seem to work
> as modifiers.  I don't know if this an orca peculiarity or something I 
> could remedy some other way.  Second, the package
> manager gui seems to at the very least freeze orca for extended 
> periods of time.  Pidgin also seems to have this
> problem, especially when there are multiple accounts that are 
> connecting at once.  Definitely useful and helpful
> accessibility features for the future might be an audible login prompt 
> indicator like we see in ubuntu, and better
> handling of status messages in the installer.  The only way I could 
> see the progress of the install was to use flat
> review and cycle back and forth between a screen that said "pannel 
> pannel" and "help button".  This allowed the flat
> review to be updated.
> Other than that, congradulations to you all at Sun, and thank you so 
> very much for making my boyhood dream come true.
> Ever since the early 90s when I used to dial into shell accounts, and 
> would hear "unix r system v release 4.0", I have
> wanted to sit behind a sun console.   Now I and many others can.
> Thanks a million,
> Josh
>
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