Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello Rich Le 05/01/2022 à 09:04, Rich Morin a écrit : > In summary, I'm wondering what it would take to get versions of the more > accessible OS distros set up to run (via a VM) on pmOS. Does anyone else > think this is a feasible and/or worthwhile goal? Feasible, hardly (I concur on what Jef

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings to all, From my 22 years of being a Linux user and advocate, I have seen conversations like the one's we have been having here in the last month, come up quite a bit. I have started a few of those discussions myself. They are difficult because there are lots of words used that have su

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Jeffery Mewtamer
I don't have any experience with Qemu, but assuming it can run x86 guests on ARM hosts at all, my expectation is that a old model smartphone would be incapable of running Gnome or Mate within a virtual machine with anything approaching decent performance, especially once you throw in the Accessibil

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
tl;dr: as a Linux user since 2004, I dont think creating an accessible distributioon is a good idea. I prefer contributing to mainstream distros than creating a new one, as such maintainance may require a lot of work, the maintainers team is nearly always so small, so there is no future warrant

creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Rich Morin
tl; dr - Here are some ideas about creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros. Your mileage may vary, void where prohibited by law. Some Background To let folks know where I'm coming from, I'll start out with some background. I'm a sighted programmer who has been working with free soft