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From: "Rob Hudson" <captinlogic@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
	<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Subject: Re: Switching to Linux
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:06:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9750FF4928944F65B4D7380074B917C9@user89ba4c8c7a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <518BD72F.4030900@math.wisc.edu>

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" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
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
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Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 the direction of speakup William Hubbs
 ` Hart Larry
   ` instructions for installing and using Skype from the console? Willem van der Walt
 ` the direction of speakup Scott D. Henning
   ` Tony Baechler
     ` Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
       ` Kirk Reiser
 ` covici
   ` acollins
     ` covici
       ` Robert Spangler
         ` John G. Heim
           ` Mike Ray
           ` covici
             ` Mike Ray
               ` covici
                 ` Tony Baechler
                   ` covici
                   ` Kirk Reiser
                 ` Kirk Reiser
             ` John G. Heim
               ` Switching to Linux Tony Baechler
                 ` John G. Heim
                   ` Øyvind Lode
                     ` Buddy Brannan
                       ` Samuel Thibault
                         ` John G. Heim
                           ` Samuel Thibault
                             ` Karen Lewellen
                               ` Gregory Nowak
                           ` Rob Hudson [this message]
                             ` Hart Larry
                               ` Kyle
                             ` John G. Heim
                             ` Tony Baechler
                   ` Voxin was: " Brandon McGinty-Carroll
                     ` Kyle
                       ` Littlefield, Tyler
                         ` Kyle
                           ` Littlefield, Tyler
                             ` Kyle
                             ` Windows bashing was: " Tony Baechler
                               ` Kyle
                                 ` Tony Baechler
                               ` Littlefield, Tyler
                                 ` Glenn
                                 ` Kyle
                                 ` Tony Baechler
                                   ` Littlefield, Tyler
                                   ` Gregory Nowak
                                     ` Glenn
                                       ` AVG, was: " Gregory Nowak
                                         ` Glenn
                                     ` Gregory Nowak
                                     ` Tony Baechler
                                       ` Glenn
                                       ` Gregory Nowak
                                         ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209
                                           ` Littlefield, Tyler
                                         ` Tony Baechler
                                           ` Gregory Nowak
                         ` Jayson Smith
                           ` Janina Sajka
                             ` Jason White
                               ` Brandon McGinty-Carroll
                                 ` Jason White
                                 ` Janina Sajka
                                   ` Tony Baechler
                                     ` Jason White
                                     ` Brandon McGinty-Carroll
                         ` Tony Baechler
                       ` Hart Larry
                         ` Kyle
                       ` John G. Heim
                         ` Mike Ray
                           ` John G. Heim
                             ` Tony Baechler
                       ` Janina Sajka
                         ` Albert Sten-Clanton
                           ` Janina Sajka
                             ` Al Sten-Clanton
                               ` Janina Sajka
                           ` Talking GDM [Was: Voxin was: Switching to Linux] Janina Sajka
                             ` Kyle
                               ` Janina Sajka
                                 ` Kyle
                                   ` Janina Sajka
                                     ` Janina Sajka
                                       ` covici
                                         ` Janina Sajka
                                           ` covici
                                             ` Janina Sajka
                                       ` Jason White
                                         ` Janina Sajka
                                         ` Cleverson Casarin Uliana
                                           ` Jason White
                                           ` Kyle
                             ` Albert Sten-Clanton
                               ` Janina Sajka
                                 ` Albert Sten-Clanton
                     ` Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux John G. Heim
                       ` John G. Heim
                       ` Rob Hudson
                         ` Kirk Reiser
             ` the direction of speakup Kelly Prescott
               ` Kyle
           ` Glenn
             ` acollins
     ` Brandon McGinty-Carroll
       ` covici
 Switching to Linux Jason White
 ` Kyle

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