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Linux For The Rest Of Us 22: Jonathan From FrostBite Systems

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[01:24] Jonathan Nadeau – Frostbite Systems

(http://www.frostbitesystems.com)

[02:51] Are you paying for Windows ?

[04:42] Why are you a Linux advocate.

[05:20] The cost of screen readers.

[06:55] Why Jonathan supports Linux.

[08:18] Jonathan discovers Ubuntu and Orca.

(http://live.gnome.org/Orca)

[08:51] Accessibility side of open source.

[09:47] Vinux – Vinux is a remastered version of the popular Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default it provides three screen-readers, two full-screen magnifiers, global font-size and colour changing facilities as well as support for USB Braille displays.

(http://vinux.org.uk)

[11:40] Jonathan’s Linux computers are not just for the visually impaired.

[13:34] Some of the products Jonathan uses. Hardware is hardware, no manufacture/vendor gets special hardware.

[17:50] Frostbook-9735

(http://frostbitesystems.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=29)

[18:40] Available distributions on Jonathan’s computers.

[21:27] Jonathan’s view on Ubuntu and accessibility.

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[29:21] The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic unalienable human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives, and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.

(http://www.cchrint.org/)

[33:49] Staying Upstream.

[36:03] This week in Fedora podcast

(http://frostbitemedia.org/node/8)

[39:30] What can we do to support Frostbite Systems.

[42:00] Support from Frostbite Systems.

[50:53] Jonathan’s Podcasts.

(http://frostbitemedia.org/)

[51:47] Parabola GNU/Linux! – a lightweight, free and flexible GNU/Linux distribution based on Archlinux.

(http://www.parabolagnulinux.org/)

[54:24] Fedora (not doors cup of tea)

(http://fedoraproject.org/)