Re: [orca-list] several critical issues

["S. Massy" <lists wolfdream ca>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:43:04PM +0200, timothyhobbs seznam cz wrote:
> Is the problem only present on multi core machines? It could be a thread
> synchronization problem. My own attempts to play with orca(I'm a sighted
> person who is researching/building braille devices, thus my involvement in
> this list) have shown it to be next to unusable from a stability standpoint,
> so you're not alone. I'm on a 64 bit intel core2 duo machine myself. Arch
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but the whole thing certainly is fragile.
Orca runs well enough here on my Mac Mini under Debian Wheezy, though I
admitedly only use the GUI to run firefox. In my experience, it is
fairly easy to overwhelm Orca if, for instance, moving too fast.

Cheers,
S.M.