Re: [orca-list] Jos Lemmens passed away on November 9, 2021

2022-01-06 Thread Milton
Very sad to hear. I use 2 applications with pleassure: daisy player and ebook-speaker. Op 07-01-2022 om 07:07 schreef Sébastien Hinderer: Thanks a lot Didier for having shared the very sed news. I feel that our community of persons involved in accessibility for free software is so small that e

Re: [orca-list] Jos Lemmens passed away on November 9, 2021

2022-01-06 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Thanks a lot Didier for having shared the very sed news. I feel that our community of persons involved in accessibility for free software is so small that every member of this community is of crucial important, and that every loss is thus sad, painful and difficult to accept, a bit like in a harmo

Jos Lemmens passed away on November 9, 2021

2022-01-06 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, I have been sad to learn that we lost Jos from his web page: http://jlemmens.nl/ http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ Quote from this page: -- Update November 9, 2021: I am very sorry to inform you that Jos quietly passed away this morning. He will be remembered as our own

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-06 Thread Rich Morin
> On Jan 6, 2022, at 06:53, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > > I thought the Cathedral represented proprietary software and FOSS was > the Bazaar in that old metaphor... Yep, my mistake. Actually, the difference is more like the BSDs and Linux. There are only a few BSD Cathedrals (e.g., FreeBSD, Net

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 06 janv. 2022 01:07:38 -0800, a ecrit: > VM performance - QEMU apparently has pretty low overhead (because of JIT code > generation and such) It has low overhead when virtualization acceleration is available. Otherwise it's a large performance hit. The arm64 architectu

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-06 Thread Jeffery Mewtamer
I thought the Cathedral represented proprietary software and FOSS was the Bazaar in that old metaphor... Considering Debian's policy on only including FOSS in the main distro, targeting devices that target Linux might be the only sane option Mobian has at their disposal... though I'm not sure Debi

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-06 Thread Rich Morin
> On Jan 5, 2022, at 08:02, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > > 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

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-06 Thread Rich Morin
> On Jan 5, 2022, at 01:51, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > ... 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 warranty for the end-user. ... I kind