going imap - and looking for a PPC linux image that will work on a G3 powerbook

[Technomage Hawke]

not sure on that myself. 

I do know that there are about 4 official distributions that will even admit to supporting a ppc: ubuntu, opensuse, fedora, archlinux. of these, only 3 are accessible with minimal setup and initial sighted assistance. I am working on a procedure for each one that should allow the blind user to install on a simple install (no multiboot or multiOS systems, just a wipe/format/install). I am digging into whether these can be set to speech on boot (boot prompt with options). if so, this will speed up operations for the bloind user significantly. 

as an alternative. there is adriane knoppix (latest release is 6.2. its a basic live desktop with gnome and orca. it will work from cd or install to HD for faster operations. it features a text only interface that offers several options. 

-Eric

On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Yeah, dunno about emacspeak on that but I was originally thinking of
> running Speakup in the kernel or as kernel modules.  But again, I
> don't know if the speakup modules can run on other platforms such as
> Power PC.
>