From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oa0-f53.google.com (mail-oa0-f53.google.com [209.85.219.53]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 789AC1EF6B0 for ; Thu, 9 May 2013 14:06:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-oa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id g12so3759026oah.40 for ; Thu, 09 May 2013 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority :x-mailer:x-mimeole; bh=slD16Vqi++1QO+ivrSiAF+y4Gcana+tfsjs2Tka555U=; b=FO2g7upfg6iVqVktIY4d1AlGmhBi784mxIbC818d18tzrOQkxJoWQjZ0055da2auk2 1iXNM5V51qGJXGbnmNSdZ/NSL7kDznPIKWlWa+H8/Pw9UfD/ytcRghD8m4qTyu1ippIA mOngKQASmBjoCwO7TYAAlTWy2ldr2n6c9TDSUb3axof3EaL26rqSGpMJWc7Hd1xO1a11 Ns1jyJKStcq9ehmRwDzC5pzhphxWTdGku+57GiKx8PLsQ5qV6lakLwF6rt/sIOsEAthv m0LWVruzxvIbbLV6slPeZwoZ9Eh82rvdiq8AZroeRICjmu4VbzZT3E8YyIl1qdNnLAxd o5eA== X-Received: by 10.182.108.165 with SMTP id hl5mr4913916obb.33.1368122812411; Thu, 09 May 2013 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user89ba4c8c7a (host-44-193-169-209.midco.net. [209.169.193.44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id x5sm4417029oep.1.2013.05.09.11.06.50 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 09 May 2013 11:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9750FF4928944F65B4D7380074B917C9@user89ba4c8c7a> From: "Rob Hudson" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for 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> Subject: Re: Switching to Linux Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:06:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 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 18:06:56 -0000 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup