Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > I haven't tried it since Leopard, so I couldn't say, however the driver > interface meant that it was extremely limited anyway. I have since taken to > the song and dance of configuring VMWare to pass through my USB braille > device (BrailleNote Apex) to a Linux VM, and then pulling and re-plugging > quickly enough after starting a VM for it to be detected and used by Linux. > Until VMWare pull their finger out and provide a proper way to interface > serial devices, either to physical or software via sockets, this will have > to suffice. But it's worth it.
It might be easier for those with genuine USB braille displays rather than serial. Mine has USB, serial and Bluetooth interfaces. > Not only is Linux a great way to get and > install software, but it's trivial to ssh back into the Mac to get what CLI > support is available from that platform (which I must say appears to be in a > very sharp decline in recent times). I've been using Linux for everything since 1998 or so, but decided this time to buy a MacBook, partly for the hardware specifications, which are excellent, and partly to try a different software environment that's nevertheless still UNIX. I'm still very much at the stage of having to search the Web a lot for information as I come to terms with an unfamiliar operating system and its supplied applications. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
