Got Ubuntu installed, but--

[Willie Walker]

> point. Anything I can do to make it a little less painful? Is there a
> more better window manager for instance, or should I just go for a
> more better computer? 

A more modern machine would definitely help.  :-)

> But since I'm asking about Cepstral (well, I wasn't, but I did bring
> it up), in order to use it, do I need to build gnome-speech from
> source? I mean--I eventually plan on playing with mozilla3 and
> Openoffice, but not on this machine for heaven's sake. 

You do need to build gnome-speech from source. There are some
instructions here that might help:

   http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech

Hope this helps,

Will