Need advice/Question on Current Release

[Jan Claeys]

Op donderdag 26-10-2006 om 22:11 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef
terrence at terrencevak.net:
>         I tried the newest release, and have had little/no success with 
> it.  The install script doesn't run when I click on it and my computer 
> freezes up.  Also, running orca from console 1 told me it couldn't find 
> the display or something like tat, and/or told me that watchdog detected 
> something bad, and running it from within Gnome didn't produce *anything*. 
> Someone over on the gnome-accessibility list, I think it was, suggested 
> that some of my issues stemmed from the fact that I only had a PC with 
> 433 mhz and 160 MB of ram, and had suggested I try Xubuntu.  However, I 
> haven't seemed to have much luck getting accessibility going on that.  So 
> my questions are these: (1) *Can* I get Ubuntu up and running on my system 
> even if it does only have 160 MB of ram?  (2) If Xubuntu would be a 
> solution for an old PC like this one, how would I get it accessible?  and 
> (3) What *is* the best option for such a PC as I've described?  I've been 
> using Oralux as my main distro, but there's things that Oralux can't do 
> that I'd need X to accomplish. 

Like Beth suggested, it should be possible to install Ubuntu using the
alternative install CD, but I don't know if the alternative installer is
accessible, so you might need some help to do the installation.

I have used Ubuntu with GNOME on a Pentium MMX 166MHz with 64 MiB RAM
(it was really slow, but worked), but I don't know how much extra RAM is
needed for the accessibility extras (speech synthesis etc.).


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Jan Claeys