[orca-list] intro and observations on Archlinux/Mate

[Chris Watson <ai6u w6sfm com>]

Howdy folks.
My name is Chris, and am new to this list or any other for that matter.

Old DOS junky, and have been fooling with arch cli for a year and a half now. 
Great wikis. 

Well, finally took the gui plunge, and settled on Mate. System is 3 ghz,SMP 
with1 gig of RAM.

When running Thunderbird, the speech freezes, and have tried repeated 
(orca-super-s) and alt-f2, but no joy. If I move to quickly, that seems to 
cause it. Probably need more memory? Have 1.5 g swap.
Was amazed at the fast bootup time.I' starting out in console and then issuing 
startx to bring up Mate.

Should I give up on this box and go for a more robust box? Thanks.

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Chris 
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