XpLike Ubuntu

[B. Henry]

For sure fogrget 11.04  unless it's already working well for you as updating is problematic, and at best requires changing software sources.
Also, that unity is not as accessible as 12.04, and the orca you can run on the classic gnome desktop for 11.04 doesn't work with quite a few things that newer orca does and you can't upgrade to a very recent orca, not even with unity will you get a very new orca to work. 
It's not hard to learn unity, but if you don't like it after a fair trial you can install gnome3, (which you are less likely to like...lol.), or xfce which will require a bit more work, but should work for most things from an accessability standpoint. 
I'm scheptical of the interface you are talking about in general, and very seriously doubt it's accessible. Check to see if it's based on GTK+. If so, or they used QT's accessible bits then if there's an xp-like based on 12.04 give it a try if you are bored, but again, I'd bet against it working with Orca and you'll probably have some other issues even if it does. 


On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:26:48PM +0100, Jimmy Sjölund wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Lenny <gervin at cableone.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Has anyone ever ran Orca in XpLike Ubuntu?
> > I burned an image of the 11.04 version, but I was not able to get speech
> > going.
> > I am not sure if I actually got booted into it, as I don't know if this
> > flavor uses a Ubuntu boot-up sound.
> > Thanks for any insight.
> > Glenn
> >
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean with XPlike unless you mean "something else than
> Unity"? 11.04 is quite old and I would suggest using another flavor of
> Ubuntu like Kubuntu, Xubuntu or Lubuntu. I'm not sure on how accessible
> their ISOs are so perhaps you're best bet is to install plain Ubuntu 12.04
> or 13.10 and then replace Unity with another Desktop Environment. Or just
> install Vinux (http://vinuxproject.org/) right away which is based on
> Ubuntu 12.04.
> 
> /Jimmy

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