[nfbcs] Sluggishness of Vinux

[Nadia C]

Hey Jordyn Castor,
Good to see you and glad I have found your email adresss. I would
advise you run it on one computer if you can not as a vm. Than use the
speach built in. The VM's can make it really slow at times.

Take care,
Nadia

On 5/14/12, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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