Thursday, 6 September 2007

Talking Linux

Day off today. I had to take my Mum for an eye test after which she couldn't drive. The rest of the day I played BioShock and experimented with a talking Linux distribution called Oralux (dodgy name!)

It's designed for the blind and so it starts up with speech synthesis and various screenreading desktops. I ran it on an old Toshiba Portege laptop and it seems to run quite well. However the non-GUI desktops are rather peculiar and quite hard to use without looking at the screen. Or at least I thought they were. Perhaps you just have to get used to them.

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