Is there a tutorial for me
to read to understand if additional Linux distributions installed on the same
device need separate BIOS BOOT and EFI SYSTEM partitions in addition for a
separate partition for that added Linux distribution.
I want to have text console
accessibility and the two best distributions that do this are Debian and Slint
(based on Slackware).
However, Slint being
Slackware based leaves big deficiencies in the availability of
applications.
But on the other hand,
Slint, especially for accessibility, has done an amazing job. Not only are
their useful customized scripts to get your system to speak with a certain
console screen reader (or not to speak at all), certain screen readers like
voxin (both the IBM TTS version and the new Voxin Embedded TTS) install with
an easy script, and if emacspeak is desire, it too will be installed and
integrated with the IBM TTS engine for emacspeak if desired. I understand that
an emacspeak engine for Voxin Embedded TTS is under development and it's hoped
that it will be added to Slint.
The sole developer of Slint
and Slint's multi language accessibility, Didier Spaier has done an
unbelievable job.
In a way, the pity is that
it's Slackware, and that distro hasn't kept up with the software needs of it's
user base.
However, all those wished
for applications and utilities are found in Debian especially if a third-party
sources.list generator is used to include non-free software that isn't
published in Debian such as multimedia codecs. Debian is starting to keep up
with it's user base by finally installing non-free firmware, we can only hope
for the non-free libraries that every other Linux distro has.
It would be wonderful to
have both of these on one device and have the one that is wanted selected at
boot time in a grub menu.
Now only if boot up menus
were accessible, but perhaps someday they will be.
Rgds,
David