From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 13:12:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D78116A406 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8227A13C49D for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:12:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A6567.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.101.103]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l0QDCEl3005756; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:12:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0QDC5AT053118; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:12:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0QDC5e9003658; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:12:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200701261312.l0QDC5e9003658@fire.jhs.private> To: "Mr. Jim Vaglia" In-reply-to: <000501c740a9$e12d46c0$2e01a8c0@2005hp> References: <000601c73ea8$92242a60$2e01a8c0@2005hp> <200701251256.l0PCuroY074833@fire.jhs.private> <000501c740a9$e12d46c0$2e01a8c0@2005hp> Comments: In-reply-to "Mr. Jim Vaglia" message dated "Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:54:36 -0500." Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:12:05 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vision impaired software on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:12:19 -0000 "Mr. Jim Vaglia" wrote: > Thanks, my main reason for inquiring are for pc and Apple manufactures who > may be thinking of offering free bsd to Vista and Leppard as a alternative, > not really interested in messing up my current configurations unless > computer manufactures force a install download of free bsd then will have no > choice but to learn the OS. Dead end discussing then ! We don't want to coerce you to use FreeBSD. If your system vendor might coerce you, tell them to advertise support jobs (to help you their customer) on freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org. > Besides installing I am intrested in the use of > talking software in tasks such as managing files on the harddrive with free > BSD, reading writing mail, instant messages, playing audio files over the > net, the use of these applications under free BSD with assistive technology? FreeBSD has 16,000+ ported packages, http://freebsd.org/ports/ First help yourself: Determine precisely manufacturer & model number of your screen equivalent blind output device, & what standards if any it might conform to or emulate. Use a search engine to find if any flavours of BSD or Linux or packages (that would probabbly run on any free OS without great work) might already support your device, (to learn which OS or package users/developers mail list might be best to ask on). Install a spare hard disk, or use partitioner in FreeBSD cdrom /tools/ Try installer, report results with manufacturer & model number. Numerous public domain source developers would surely be prepared to work at various discounts to integrate solutions, if one's not available already. Enquire of any national or international blind group of which you may be a member, or your goverment, if a free public source solution for your device is available, & if not, whether they can jointly raise funds to sponsor development of a blind solution that's public source based, free for all, (if one doesn't already exist). You'r the one with the problem, the undisclosed device, the contacts & the motivation, so if yoy do the arranging, FreeBSD or other public source programmers could certainly develop code. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software