17 Mar
2009
17 Mar
'09
8:46 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:15:30 -0700 Keith Hinton <keithint1234@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've really enjoied the current Arch setup. I've only started using > the Arch CDs in the last few weeks due to Chris Brannon's efforts to > produce an accessible talking boot iso for those who are blind or > visually impaired like myself. > This is largely what has been driving me away from Arch CDs. > First, I had a suggestion for the release-engineering project. > Accessibility is extremely chriticle for users that are completely > blind. I know that Chris and Arron have been in discussion about > producing accessible Arch Isos before (his Isos are just remastered > iso images containing several extra packages) like Alsa-utils. > Speakup, (a Linux screen access program that provides the possibility > of speech-output, for the console, of course, and a few others. > Has anyone in the Arch-release project taken a close look at this > stuff? > Yes we are interested in this. I know there was a thread about this (probably Chris' first announcement) but I couldn't find it back. I personally didn't have time to look at it yet. > aif > What is Aif exactly? > The other question is, what is wrong with the current installation > process? Aif improves over archlinux-installer in a few ways: 1) make libraries of backend logic instead of spaghetticode 2) this follows 1): ability to easily create different installation scripts/methods (interactive, automatic, ...). both from a user and developer perspective. 3) various bugfixes and improvements > And for the final question, (I know bugs are fixed in your > latest media) but what happens if you can't aford to purchase Cds all > the time etc to burn Isos too? If you're just going to use the FTP > iso, (not the core) is it necessary to still obtain latest media? I'm > curious if there are any severe consequences for not doing this in > particular? I assume that there must be, otherwise you wouldn't have > mentioned grabbing this stuff in the official and beginner guides for > the Arch installation process. > I'm simply an Arch Linux user, I'm no developer, but thought I'd be > free to at least ask my questions. Thanks much! Depends on what you want to do. If you are talking about bringing your system up to date: you can keep any arch system up to date with 'pacman -Syu', no need to download new cd's. > Regards, --Keith Dieter