Re: Concerning Debian and ArchLinux
Janina Sajka <[email protected]>
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Hi, John: I've recently moved from Fedora to Arch. My reason is that rpmfusion had stopped building the kernel staging modules required for Speakup. As you don't need Speakup, that wouldn't be a concern to you. Aside from that Fedora is essentially updatable just like Debian and Arch. I used yum, and more recently dnf to take myself from Fedora 19 to 20, to 21, etc., without ever reinstalling. I did run into issues once over tex files where an upgrade path wasn't well defined, but I was able to handle those readily. I am generally well pleased with my Arch installation--now on two machines. You need to know that you can have braille support during an Arch installation. Look at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TalkingArch If you do go for Arch, I strongly recommend following the Arch Beginner's Guide, which I found very helpful even though I've been a Linux user for a couple decades: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/beginners'_guide hth Janina John J. Boyer writes: > That is the latest stable version of Debian? I am curently using Jessie. > > I like the idea of ArchLinux, because it never requires re-installation. > Why don't the other distros take a similar approach? However, i don't > want to start with the bare-bones installation that is downloadable. I > would like one that includes brltty, internet access and the package > manager. > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, > AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > Email: [email protected] > Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:[email protected] Email: [email protected] Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa