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William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >> |
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> > For a person on dial-up, about 2 1/2 hours of additional download. That |
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> > said, I'd be OK with the increase in size if it would help a person who |
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> > can't see the screen. |
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> It is impossible for a person who can't see the screen to install gentoo |
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> linux from our current release media unless they do what I did, which |
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> was to have someone read the screen to me long enough to assist me with |
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> starting an ssh server on the livecd and figure out the IP address of |
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> the computer, so that I could ssh in from my second computer to do the |
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> install. |
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> In other words, putting this software on our media will not just |
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> help, but make it possible for a blind person to install gentoo |
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> independently. |
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> Only adding the software to the live cd is not an option for me, because |
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> I feel that all of our release media should be accessible. Yes, there |
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> will be a size increase for the release media, but, unless the alsa |
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> modules and alsa-utils are over 15 mb, it will not be a 20 mb increase. |
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Maybe I am being misunderstood. I'm all for it even if it does make it |
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bigger. It's a good idea in my opinion. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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