Orca and Xubuntu?

Hi,
unfortunately at work I have a very slow machine.
only 128mb of ram, and a hard disk of 20gb.
I don't know if ubuntu 7.10 could be installed in a so slow
system.
So, I think to give a try to Xubuntu, but, does Orca work
with that operative system?
Thanks in advance.

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:21:40PM EST, Simone Dal Maso
wrote:
> Hi,
> unfortunately at work I have a very slow machine.
> only 128mb of ram, and a hard disk of 20gb.
> I don't know if ubuntu 7.10 could be installed in a so
slow system.
> So, I think to give a try to Xubuntu, but, does Orca
work with that operative system?

Unfortunately, Xfce/Xubuntu does not include orca, and orca
will not work at this time. I intend to see what can be done
about this in the future however.

Luke
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Hello,

Simone Dal Maso  wrote / napĂ­sal(a):
> I don't know if ubuntu 7.10 could be installed in a so
slow system.
> So, I think to give a try to Xubuntu, but, does Orca
work with that operative system?


> Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment, meaning that
it will run fast while still delivering a user-friendly
interface. Older computers feel lively again, while newer
ones will run faster than ever

I think xfce has not adapted accessibility apis from gnome
so I am 
afraid this won't work. Gnome is not suited for such slow
machines.

I am also looking for some distro for installing to my old
toshiba 
laptop with 366 MHz processor and 32 mb of ram but I am even
unsure grml 
with text console only will run there.


Peter
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am Do 27. Mär 2008 um 12:37:16 schrieb Simone Dal Maso
<simone.dalmasojuvox.it>:
> unfortunately at work I have a very slow machine.
> only 128mb of ram, and a hard disk of 20gb.
> I don't know if ubuntu 7.10 could be installed in a so
slow system.

No chance!

> So, I think to give a try to Xubuntu, but, does Orca
work with that operative system?
> Thanks in advance.
 
No! It comes with Orca, but without the needed accessibility
mechanism; and there's no braille display. All you hear is 
"Welcome to Orca!" when you try to start Orca, and
you don't have any braille support, neither in GUI, nor on
the text 
console - if there's one at all.
So the only solution is to install a text only Linux, but
with only 128MB RAM it might be very slow as well.
Hermann

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Speaking of old Laptops, I also have an old Toshiba with 32
meg and a
266 MMX processer and I installed Slackware 12.0 with
Speakup.  I use
speech dispatcher plus speechd-up on it and it isn't too
bad.  Just
don't compile large programs on it and you'll do fine.  It
took over 3
hours to compile mplayer from source once so I never dared
to compile
the kernel on it.  I just build large apps like that on my
fast box
and send it over and install the home-made slackware style
package.
If I want to play other media content on it, I have to use
the
plug::dmix option in espeak.conf of the Speech Dispatcher
config in
order to play sounds and have speech at the same time.

Obviously, no GNOME on this bad boy.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:14:27PM +0100, Peter Vágner
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Simone Dal Maso  wrote / napĂ­sal(a):
> > I don't know if ubuntu 7.10 could be installed in
a so slow system.
> > So, I think to give a try to Xubuntu, but, does
Orca work with that operative system?
> 
> 
> > Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment, meaning
that it will run fast while still delivering a user-friendly
interface. Older computers feel lively again, while newer
ones will run faster than ever
> 
> I think xfce has not adapted accessibility apis from
gnome so I am 
> afraid this won't work. Gnome is not suited for such
slow machines.
> 
> I am also looking for some distro for installing to my
old toshiba 
> laptop with 366 MHz processor and 32 mb of ram but I am
even unsure grml 
> with text console only will run there.
> 
> 
> Peter
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