for special purpose Lucid or Maverick?

[Milton]

Am I right that speakup is only for the virtual console?
Is there a tutorial how to install and use it?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pia" <pmikeal at comcast.net>
To: "Milton" <milton at tomaatnet.nl>
Cc: <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: for special purpose Lucid or Maverick?


>I would get Lucid and update it to as recent of an installation as
> possible by downloading the 10.04.2 iso and once you have everything
> installed that you need, I would run an
> aptitude full-upgrade
> My reasoning for this is that even though they may never update it again,
> Lucid, being an LTS is more focused on stability rather than features, and
> you are going to want a computer that has as little trouble as possible
> without a tech support person right there and no Internet connection.
> Also, I have found Lucid to work beautifully with speakup.  Orca isn't
> really developed as rapidly as it was when Willy was in charge of it and
> so, it isn't like in the better days when a new distro release meant leaps
> and bounds forward in the screen reader department.  So, I also have found
> Orca works about as good on both.
>
> HTH,
>
> Pia
>
> On Fri, 20 May 2011, Milton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I need your advice because I have no knowledge about.
>> We will donate a computer to a smaal organization running a house for
>> visually impaired children and orphans. They do'nt have access to the
>> internet.
>> So the computer, of course with the help of Orca, can be a great help for
>> education etc. and also to play some games.
>> I installed Maverick and Orca 3.1.1 but can somebody confirm if this is 
>> the
>> better choice than Lucid LTS?
>> I think the computer will be used untill the hardware dies without 
>> updating
>> in the meanwhile.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Milton
>>
>>