How do we tell the people that make the net install firmware CD and the Live CD that they should have a
I think the latest net install CD was broken, I had Ethernet access but not WiFi access, so I had to use the previous build.
I believe a base of a Live Debian CD with Firmware that results in a working and talking and brailing installation for command line with enough applications to use command line for any user would be excellent.
Add a working emacs and emacspeak from GIT and you'd hit it out of the park.
AntiX has a command line stream player populated with lots of streams from NPR and others.
The URL's for tinyradio are here:
I made a CLI version of AntiX and it worked very well. I also installed emacs and emacspeak from git.
It uses Debian repositories.
But the idea is to have something for a visually impaired user to just either run from USB stick, CD or to i install to hard drive, perhaps along side the "other" operating system.
I think having this as a basic building block along with metascripts to install GNOME, or KDE, or MATE, or other Desktop would be just awesome.
Of course, if some developer were to make scripts to set up mail using gmail, aol, or other email provider for mutt, and alpine, it would be very good.
I don't think I could survive without a premade configuration if it was my first time with Linux. I went from GUI to CLI after I found that with Linux you could still accomplish nearly everything on the command line, and never guess at what a mouse was doing.
Best wishes,
David