Top 15 Vinux Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Vinux is a Ubuntu derived distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users. By default Vinux provides two screen-readers, Braille display support and an extremely friendly community.
When you boot the live Vinux image, you will be greeted by the Orca screen reader.

This will allow you to navigate the Unity graphical Gnome desktop using keyboard commands. Finally, Brltty provides Grade 1 and 2 Braille output.

1. Voxin

Voxin Voxin is an easily installable add-on which provides yet another text-to-speech to blind users of GNU/Linux.Voxin is updated for compatibility with several distros; for example the last ones are Debian 8.3, Ubuntu 15.10 et 16.04 (alpha2).Voxin has been recently tested with Emacspeak and Orca/Speech-Dispatcher and is potentially compatible with SBL,......

2. PrimTux

PrimTux PrimTux is a Debian-based distribution developed by a small team of school teachers and computer enthusiasts in the educational environment. It is not intended to replace or become the main operating system of a modern computer, but an upgrade for obsolete equipment and benefiting the school or educational environment......

3. Webilder

Webilder Webilder downloads and display stunning wallpapers from Flickr and Webshots on your Linux desktop.Webilder includes a simple photo collection browser that will let you view the images in fullscreen or set them as a wallpaper, a browser integration for Webshots - downloaded images are automatically added to your collection -......

4. Emma

Emma Emma is a graphical toolkit for MySQL database developers and administrators. It provides dialogs to create or modify MySQL databases, tables, and associated indexes. The results of an executed query are displayed in a result set where the record data can be edited by the user, if the SQL statement......

5. Debian Package Repository Producer

Debian Package Repository Producer Reprepro is a command line tool for creating and managing a local APT ( Advanced Package Tool ) repository. It will create and layout all necessary files for a working repository.Linux manpage (HTML, may be outdated): https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/reprepro.1.html Other social network pages:Google+ - https://plus.google.com/111711190057359692089......

6. Lunar Linux

Lunar Linux Lunar Linux is a revolutionary Linux distribution in that it is not binary based, as are most distributions, but is instead built entirely by compiling source code, using your own custom optimizations. It installs a complete bootstrap development system first. After telling the Lunar package manager which software will be......

7. GoboLinux

GoboLinux GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. In GoboLinux you don't need a package database because the filesystem is the database: each program resides in its own directory, such as /Programs/Xorg-Lib/7.4 and /Programs/KDE-Libs/4.2.0.Instead of having parts of a program......

8. Gnome Screensaver

Gnome Screensaver gnome-screensaver is a new screensaver that can replace xscreensaver. It is designed to integrate well with the desktop and provide a control interface that is desktop neutral. It simplifies and streamlines the experience for the user and provides more capability for the system administrator and vendor.......

9. Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus

Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus Fight the text ads! Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus meant to make creating element hiding rules easier.......

10. mountall

mountall mountall mounts filesystems when the underlying block devices are ready, or when network interfaces come up, checking the filesystems first.......

11. Deb-Creator

Deb-Creator Deb-Creator is a tool to quickly create Debian packages. The program provides a simple graphical user interface written in C++ using Qt Creator. It uses the dpkg command in Linux to build the final Debian package.......

12. redsocks

redsocks Redsocks is a daemon running on the local system, that will transparently tunnel any TCP connection via a remote SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy server. It uses the system firewall's redirection facility to intercept TCP connections, thus the redirection is system-wide, with fine-grained control, and does not depend on LD_PRELOAD......

13. MenuLibre

MenuLibre An advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface. All without GNOME dependencies, so even lightweight systems can benefit from the sanity that MenuLibre offers. MenuLibre is your one-stop shop for menus in Linux, whether you use Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, or Unity.Features A beautiful interface powered......

14. Gna! UnRAR

Gna! UnRAR unrar (or unrar-free in some Linux distributions) is a free software version of the non-free unrar utility that exists on many GNU/Linux systems today. It uses the GPL'd UniquE RAR Library by Christian Scheurer and Johannes Winkelmann. This program is a simple command-line front-end to this library, and can list......

15. gNewSense

gNewSense gNewSense is a fully free software GNU/Linux distribution.Free software is software that respects your freedom. You can use it without restrictive licenses, make copies for your friends, school or business. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting your rights to learn and to share......