debian installed???

[Alex Snow]

if you got more ram for the pII you could run gnome fine. my pII/233 
with 208mb ram runs gnome with gnopernicus at a usable speed. as for 
sited people I saw an old 486dx 66 with 28mb ram run gnome that was 
usable by sited people.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:41:43AM -0600, Farhan 
wrote:
> yes! i'm to poor and live in a box so i can't aford good hardware if i 
> reformat this old windows machine 256 meg with 731 mhz maybe?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:34 AM
> Subject: Re: debian installed???
> 
> 
> >Hi.
> >
> >It's because of his hardware.  Depending on the amount of ram in the
> >system, he can get Gnome up and running for sighted people, but the load
> >added by Gnopernicus and software speech would make the system too slow
> >to be used.
> >
> >If he has 64 meg, Gnome will run slowly for sighted users, but it can be
> >used.
> >
> >Hope this helps.
> >         Kenny
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:14:18PM -0500, Taylor, Carlos Ervin wrote:
> >>Is that because of his hardware or because of the dlinux distribution?
> >>I'm new to this stuff so forgive me if this seems like a stupid
> >>question.
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> >>[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of jim grimsby
> >>Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:09 PM
> >>To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
> >>Subject: RE: debian installed???
> >>
> >>Hi, on that configuration I do not think I would reckamend gnome at this
> >>time for that system.  Hth
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> >>[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> >>On Behalf Of Farhan
> >>Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:48 PM
> >>To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >>Subject: Re: debian installed???
> >>
> >>
> >>my next question is how do i use links or lynx. and, the xconfig to use
> >>gnome for all the sighted peoples in my house?
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> >>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >>Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 2:12 PM
> >>Subject: Re: debian installed???
> >>
> >>
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> >>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:51:27 PM -0600, Farhan wrote:
> >>>> Hey all. just got debian installed on this old pent 2 233 mhz
> >>>> computer with 32 mb of ram the thing i'm wondering is. how do i save
> >>>> my config for speakup and how do i turn off the type echo.
> >>>
> >>> To turn off the typing echo
> >>>
> >>> echo 0 >/proc/speakup/key_echo
> >>>
> >>> Saving and restoring settings is a bit more complicated, but basically
> >>
> >>> you need to copy /proc/speakup to somewhere like /etc/speakup and copy
> >>
> >>> it back upon reboot. There are a number if different scripts to do
> >>> this floating around, but in the cvs version of speakup is a
> >>> speakupconf script which comes in handy.
> >>>
> >>> - --
> >>> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> >>> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
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