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Heim" Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Switching to Linux References: <8021.1367479350@ccs.covici.com> <518A5508.8020502@gmail.com> <518A6931.6070806@math.wisc.edu> <25752.1368029641@ccs.covici.com> <518A9206.8090008@math.wisc.edu> <518B4FCB.6090003@baechler.net> <518BAC38.8060708@math.wisc.edu> <2C21E940-B1BA-4A41-9F10-5A2443C84D6C@brannan.name> <20130509163929.GQ8733@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> <518BD72F.4030900@math.wisc.edu> <9750FF4928944F65B4D7380074B917C9@user89ba4c8c7a> In-Reply-To: <9750FF4928944F65B4D7380074B917C9@user89ba4c8c7a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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: Thu, 09 May 2013 18:28:16 -0000 Well, a GUI is always going to be slower than a CUI. But I used to have Windows 7 on this worstation, the one I'm typing this message on rigght now. And linux is approximately as fast a Windows 7. Launching Thunderbird and Firefox take approximately the same time. I have a quad-core I5 with 8Gb of RAM though. That's pretty big/fast. On 05/09/13 13:06, Rob Hudson wrote: > My problem with gnome/orca is that it is extreeeemely slow. If there was > a way to strip out most of the unnessential stuff in gnome, I'd probably > use it more often. I'm talking about almost thirty seconds to launch > firefox, as an example. Under XP on the same system, it only takes maybe > five to ten seconds. Granted, I haven't used gnome outside of vinux and > i haven't really played around much with default gnome as installed from > source or package management, so maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's orca > that's slow, I just don't know. > > Working in the terminal on the other hand is very snappy. I get no lag, > and everything just responds nice and fast. I get about a fifteen second > boot time, whereas with xorg installed it takes about forty five > seconds. There's three gigs of memory on the box in question and I think > a 2.0 ghz processor. So, unless i can find a way to make gnome faster i > won't be using it. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:04 PM > Subject: Re: Switching to Linux > > > I think today, squeeze is still debian's stable version. For squeeze, > you need a hardware synth. For wheezy, you press the S key and it speaks > with software speech. You can still do an install with your hardware > synth with wheezy. I put wheezy on a server about a month ago figuring > it would be moved to stable soon. > > 05/09/13 11:39, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Buddy Brannan, le Thu 09 May 2013 12:24:27 -0400, a écrit : >>> I've been a little out of the loop for a while. Quite a while, as it >>> happens. How does one do a talking Debian stable install these days? >>> Serial synth required, or does speak happen somehow? >> >> See http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility >> >> Samuel >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim@math.wisc.edu