[Hudlug] linux command line

[Ben Fowler]

On 08/08/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> ...I am kind of having to just
> familiarise myself with my Linux system, looking at Gnome, which
> applications seem to have some accessibility,

I think that that is the right thing to do. At the Accessibility BOF
at LUG Radio, it was stated that all Gnome widgets had accessibility
support.

There is no reason, I understand, why ultimately all Gnome
applications should not have full accessibility support. This does not
apply to Inkscape - not a Gnome application, nor to Firefox, a GTK
application, which rolls its own widgets; but I think that we shall
see some  movement here as well, over the next few years.

> running terminal to get
> the speech working and trying to see if I can move to directories and
> explore their contents.

This is also a good thing to do. You might want to try the virtual
terminals as well.

> I also think if I had got the USB stick my sister ended up giving to mum
> and knew how to make backups and restore them I would be more confident
> in trying stuff, knowing that I should be able to restore if something
> were to go wrong ie copying that 0.26 Orca .tgz file from my CD and
> building it to get the latest update.

Without entering into the sororal question too deeply, I think that
you might be making more heavy weather over this than is quite
justified.

I can set you a back-up system for your home directory, and I suspect
that nothing else needs to be done for backing up.

Unless you know better, I would be pushing for you to having the
latest versions: Just the ones from apt-get including the debs that
Luke Yelavich makes.

Ben