[orca-list] getting started and introduction

["Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler tysdomain com>]

Hello all:
First, I had a few questions. I was looking at using Orca more at least 
for development since I have a couple of projects I want to market and 
make available for Linux.
I had a friend help me get Debian installed and set up, but I was 
curious if this was the best environment to use. I didn't see any actual 
instructions for installing orca from source, which I am interested in 
doing.
Also, I'm noticing a bit of lag here--I'm not sure what the deal is with 
that. Has anyone had any experience with this? Are there tweaks and etc 
worth making to speed things up a bit? Whether it be to 
gnome/debian/orca itself. I'm kind of considering switching to arch, but 
I am not really sure where I want to go yet.

I'm also curious of the environment most people use for development. Do 
you all work from virtual machines and use snapshots to test other 
software? I'm thinking I'll use emacspeak for editing, but I don't know 
how well that'll work on the compile-run-test cycle.
Thanks,

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Take care,
Ty
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