[nfbcs] Sluggishness of Vinux
Jim Barbour
jbar at barcore.com
Tue May 15 00:44:12 UTC 2012
I absolutely agree that SSH is a better way to interact with your Linux machine. You can use a windows screen reader and a windows SSH client which will be far more responsive than orca.
Jim
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On May 14, 2012, at 3:09 PM, "Louis Maher" <ljmaher at swbell.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use a windows machine, with JAWS and a Brailliant Braille display, using
> SecureCRT http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/ to give me a responsive
> character-based access to a Linux environment. Once in Linux, you can use
> the Linux Screen program to give you as many character-based sessions as you
> want. I use the Linux Samba program to connect my Windows environment to my
> Linux environment, thus allowing me to use Visual Studio, Windows Explorer
> and Internet Explorer on the Linux environment.
>
> My company uses Red hat Linux (version 5.6) with the KDE desktop. I know of
> no graphical way to work with this type of Linux environment.
>
>
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> 713-444-7838
> ljmaher at swbell.net
> http://www.nfbtx.org/localchapters/houston
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Jordyn Castor
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 7:20 AM
> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbcs] Sluggishness of Vinux
>
> Hey all,
> Next semester I have to use Linux to complete a C++ course. So, I figured
> I'd try out Vinux; I haven't ever used Linux in my life. I'm wondering if
> any of you know a way to lessen the lag. I'm using the virtual edition of
> Vinux. Would you all recommend just putting it on a flash drive?
> I'm really concerned about my efficiency and productivity in this course if
> the opperating system I'm using is so slow. Any feedback would be greatly
> appreciated!
> Thanks!
> Jordyn
>
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