Re: [orca-list] kubuntu and orca

["Josh" <jkenn337 gmail com>]

Hi,
What does knackerd mean? you said if the computer is knackered.
And if it's knackered will i have to use hardware speech? if so I'm screwed 
because I don't have hardware speech synthesizer and I only have one serial 
port. I don't think computers are being made with serial ports anymore.

Josh


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Norman" <chris norman4 ntlworld com>
To: "Josh" <jkenn337 gmail com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] kubuntu and orca


> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:15 -0400, Josh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's the difference between ubuntu and xubuntu? or does the x mean it's
> > faster? Hopefully the bug where orca locks while trying to run it from 
> > the
> > live cd will be fixed soon.
>
> Well, XUbuntu is built on the XFCE desktop, which is like gnome without
> the whistles and bells (so I'm told). It is faster yes.
>
>
> I can't wait to try this out for myself.
>
>
> Someone on messenger said he doesn't care for graphical linuxes. he said 
> he uses
> > grml, and red-hat a little. I don't really know what the differences are
> > between the two console-based systems.
>
> GRML is built to be used as a live cd by system administrators and
> hackers and the like. As such I_GOUND_IT to be less stable, but that
> could be me, and isn't a poke at the developers, because it is a very
> good system. RedHat is a commercial system I believe, but it has a free
> version, which is just as good, but without the technical support called
> fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org I think). Redhat / Fedora are more
> server calss systems, and as such I find very stable and good, although
> things such as wireless aren't as good as Ubuntu or GRML for example,
> and I find the package manager very slow.
>
> > but I told him it seems like everything's going graphical these days. 
> > besides, even from a graphical
> > linux you can still launch a shell and use the console, right?
>
> Not everything is going graphical to be fair. I am still logged into 6
> TTYs as well as the graphics. And you can launch the terminal, but not
> if the computer is knackered and the graphical interface won't load, so
> you'll need to use the console, and as such a different screen reader.
>
> What a lot of people don't realise is that the console is a lot more
> powerful, but is harder to use than the less potent graphical interface.
> But don't make the mistake of thinking that console apps are out,
> because they're not. In fact, if you load an x session on a server
> dishing out connections to thin clients for example, then the hole thing
> will grind to a hault.
>
> HTH.