Vinux 5.1 finally released

[Rob Whyte]

Hi all,

many of you have swapped to our development image which is called Vinux
5.1 but we have not actually made a release from it.


Nothing has changed in the past several months other than releasing and
uploading to Sourceforge and putting the word out wider.


Please continue to report problems or ask for help.

We really hope that we can get some more people involved in the project.

It would be great if some of our community can post, tweet etc about this.


Below is the release announcement.


===== The Vinux team is pleased to announce the availability of the
Vinux 5.1 desktop image. =====

This release features not just the Unity Desktop, but Gnome-shell and
the ever popular Gnome 2 fork called Mate, though we primarily will
support Unity only.

Remember we recommend that when possible users perform updates on a
regular basis. This will enable the Vinux team to update packages, and
introduce new features.
Vinux 5.1 is based upon Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.0.4.5 LTS.

===== Some of the highlights in Vinux 5.1 =====

Up to date accessibility infrastructure.
Gnome-ORca 3.20 with updates available for 3.22
AT-SPI 2.20 with updates available for 2.22
Brltty 5.4
Speech-dispatcher 0.8.5
Liblouis 2.6.2

===== Known bugs =====

We are unable to include the Vinux 4.0 console speech changes due to
Vinux 5.1 not using consolekit any longer, please see
http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/speechd-up for more information.
To use speechd-up log in to your desktop session and run sudo speechd-up
from a gnome-terminal or add a startup item to do it automatically upon
login.

There seems to be a bug in the console if you use speakup-tools to save
local speakup settings.
How ever as a work around you can still gain access using sudo or root.


===== Software =====

Firefox 48 with updates available to 5.0.1
Thunderbird 45.2 with updates available to 45.5
Unity 7.2.4
Gnome-shell 3.10.4
Mate 1.8
LibreOffice 4.2.8
Espeak 1.48
Evince 3.12.2
Clam av 0.98.7 with updates available to 0.99
Kernel 4.40 from Xenial

===== Availability =====

Vinux 5.1 is available in the AMD64 and i386 architectures
They contain everything necessary to install the Vinux operating
system and a collection of pre-defined packages aimed at vision impaired
users.
This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD sized media.
Vinux 5.1 can be installed from optical media or from a USB pen drive.
The required files can be downloaded via HTTP as entailed below.

===== Support =====

This is a long term support release, the Vinux development team
encourages users to download and install Vinux 5.1
We are unable to commit to a support date due to lacking development
resources.

===== Contacting US =====

Our mailing list has a supportive community on Google groups at
http://groups.google.com/group/vinux-support or you can subscribe by
sending an email to vinux-suppo...@googlegroups.com
Follow us on Twitter @vinuxnews.
We are on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/Vinux.AccessibleLinux/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/vinux/

===== Acknowledgements =====

* Rob Whyte, Vinux project manager.
* Luke Yelavich. Development team leader.
* Bill Taylor. Testing team leader.
* Karen Searle for proofreading and editing our documentation, website
and wiki. Also for designing our new logo.
* The Vinux team would also like to thank Christopher Chaltain, Burt
Henry, Peter Tesar and members of the Vinux mailing lists for their
ongoing support.

===== MD5 Checksums: =====

* vinux-5.1-amd64.iso f29d5ae0f5e7371b297efd5bef9eecd4
* vinux-5.1-i386.iso dce508f1dbfc10a109b866835b6e4d4f

===== Downloading Vinux =====

Vinux has chosen Source forge for our preferred downloads.
This way users can gain fast access to over 17 mirrors and give us
feedback to user statistics.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vinuxproject/

Thank you for supporting the Vinux project.

Kind regards
Rob Whyte
Vinux project manager