From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([74.53.93.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HYozY-0000Vw-00 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:48:32 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l33JmVQ3019813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:48:31 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l33JmVod019812 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:48:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:48:31 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu Message-ID: <20070403194831.GQ26256@rednote.net> References: <20070403175049.GC5537@hittsjunk.net> <001101c77621$e11ed100$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001101c77621$e11ed100$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:48:32 -0000 This will be OK for Speakup and the console, but I suspect it will prove quite sluggish for Gnome. I suspect your RAM will be pretty much consumed before you've even launched applications judging from the memory usage I'm seeing on my laptop. PS: My X31 is just over 1Gb cpu but a P4 with 1Gb RAM. It's adequate, but I would not call it snappy. Brent Harding writes: > It's a Pentium 3, 1 gig machine with 256 mb of ram, 2 hard drives, one 30 > gigs, and the other around 6.4 gigs. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenny Hitt" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:50 PM > Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu > > > > Hi. > > > > You didn't tell us all the specs on the hardware, but it sounds like you > > don't have the resources to run the Ubuntu livecd. > > > > Remember, Gnome will need a lot of ram and processor speed to be useful. > > > > Kenny > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org