Re: openbsd, freebsd, powerpc packages?

On 2017-04-17 15:09, Eric Oyen wrote:
> well, when I had a ppc machine here, having a working box was always
> the must have. However, that has changed over the last 7 years. Now,
> what I need is an accessible installation image as well as an
> accessible running platform (this means screen reader and braille
> support). There are a number of Linux packages that fill the bill,
> even on the PPC platform. These include: ORCA (for the X desktop),
> BrlTTY (for the console side of things), and some others.
> Unfortunately, there appears to be no ports whatsoever for these to
> make OpenBSD (or any flavor of BSD) accessible to the blind on ANY
> platform. Also, my recent exchange with theo wasn't encouraging either
> (yeah, talk about personalities!). So, unless someone who can code is
> willing to port some accessibility over to the BSD ecology, there are
> going to be a rather significant number of blind users who will never
> get the experience they need to be good systems admins (unless you
> want to count OS X or windows in that).

Hi Eric,

Regarding ports you're missing (also remember to check the OPENBSD-WIP 
repository for them, that's 
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/) - what about 
either maintain the port yourself, or promise the world a bounty for 
providing it.

Tinker

> still, having the PPC packages would be a good thing as my Braille
> Sense U2 is mostly PPC/ARM based (right now, it uses windows CE 6,
> which is effectively end of Lifed). Having that device brought into
> the modern (and more secure) world would be desirable.
> 
> Anyway, back to the subject at hand: I am not sure exactly which
> chipset the Braille Sense U2 is using and the company that makes it
> won't reveal that info. So, I guess I have to reverse engineer it in
> order to find out. Its that or spend another $6k on yet another device
> (which I don't have btw). so, am I (and millions of others like me)
> deserving of a secure computing environment? Yes we are! Do any of us
> have access to the development environments for the BSD architecture
> to create what we need? not really. Linux, OS X , (and god forbid!)
> windows have better track records. Still, there are those working the
> problem, but we are so damned few.
> 
> Anyway, enough of my rant. I only got involved in this conversation
> because someone else posed the question about the latest release
> packages for PPC (or the current lack of them). Ah well. Asked and
> answered on that point, at least.
> 
> -eric