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Absolutely,
Thanks jude.
That's the reason that although in theory there can be viruses
made for Linux as well, the practicality makes it such a hard job
that it's a bad incentive to make one.
Needless to say that Virus being the baby child of Microsoft and
the likes has an entire business eco system behind it.
Think how anti virus companies earn money?
Coming to business aspect, I guess the other advantage is that
most proprietary programs have an open source or free (as in
freedom ) alternative.
This brings down the Total Ownership TOC cost down drastically.
Orca has particularly done great off late and for last 1 or 2
years it has seen the golden days of accessibility which I hope
will only increase.
Joanie and the rest of hackers have done an outstanding
fantabulous job.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Tuesday 08 May 2018 03:21 PM, Jude
DaShiell wrote:
Protection
goes a little farther than that, directories or folders have their
own sets of permissions and if memory serves devices which are
above directories in the hierarchy can have their own permissions
as well.
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 01:37:03
From: Krishnakant Mane <kkmane riseup net>
To: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>,
"orca-list gnome org" <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 18.04 used for general business
On the security side I might just add that Linux follows some
standards which make it practically next to impossible for
making virus.
The thing is that there are sets of permissions for every file
aka read, write and execute.
although downloading software that you don't trust may damage
either your user account or entire OS, there is no such Windows
style virus where the thing can automatically "infect " your
machine and self execute without you even knowing it.
As Kendle properly pointed out, if you know what you are doing,
then you are very secured.
This is unlike Windows, where no matter how much you know, there
is still great possibility of some thing automatically infecting
your OS, even when you just insert pen drive or that sort.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Tuesday 08 May 2018 10:18 AM, kendell clark wrote:
Hi
I?ll second this, adding that I personally prefer the mate
desktop, but
either mate or gnome work equally well, and gnome has some
online
integration with services like google drive and iCloud that
mate currently
doesn?t have. The only thing that Linux does not do very
well, and this is
my own personal opinion is syncing apple media players like
iPods and
iPads, although it can be done with apps like gtkpod, gtkpod
has some
accessibility issues. Depending on your business Linux might
serve you
very well or it isn?t even an option. I will add that for
most general
business tasks, word processing, calendaring, email, web
browsing Linux
works well. As for viruses, you are extremely unlikely to get
malware if
you use software available from your local software app, like
software
boutique for ubuntu or the official repositories of whatever
Linux distro
you pick. It is still theoretically possible, but you have to
work hard at
it to manage it. Software package managers like apt verify
packages with
unique hashes and won?t allow you to install software that
doesn?t match
those hashes by default, though this can be worked around if
needed, it?s
not a good idea to do so unless you know what you?re doing.
Opinions
differ on orca?s suitability as a day to day screen reader,
my personal
opinion is that it works very well. It has bugs like all
software does,
some of them annoying, but joanie does a fantastic job, and
not just of
fixing orca bugs, but bugs in other pieces of accessibility
software.
Linux also has apps for other disabilities, like onboard on
screen
keyboard and magnifiers, the best integrated into the gnome
desktop and
the compiz window manager.
Thanks
Kendell Clark
*From: *Christopher Chaltain
<mailto:chaltain gmail com>
*Sent: *Monday, May 7, 2018 6:16 PM
*To: *Krishnakant Mane <mailto:kkmane riseup net>;
sonfire11 gmail com
<mailto:sonfire11 gmail com>; orca-list gnome org
<mailto:orca-list gnome org>
*Subject: *Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 18.04 used for general
business
Linux is safer then other operating systems, but it isn't
virus free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
I find Gnome to be your most accessible option, but I do know
Mate is a
very popular desktop, especially among the blind.
On 05/07/2018 07:03 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hi,
Firstly, ubuntu or any GNU/Linux brand for that matter is
virus free.
There is a lot of stability and ease of working.
You can try GNUKhata an accounting software if your
business is
big enough.? <testing.gnukhata.in> will give you
the live demo.
If the work is very small and you want a stand-alone
software, you
can try GNUCash, although I must warn that a lot of
features are
primitive/ missing.
Another thing about? Ubuntu is that there is a lot of us
who help
people do their computing with total comfort.
Now a days a lot of huge and medium enterprises are using
Ubuntu
in their offices.
I would recommend using Ubuntu-mate 18.04 for best
accessibility.
Spreadsheets are also working pretty much fine as far as
accessibility is concerned.
You may have to spend a little while to learn Orca.
Things like alt for menus and cut copy paste shortcuts
are same.
Alt + f4 will close the application.
Most names of the menus in programs are also same.
So go ahead and feel those advantages for 0 cost!
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Monday 07 May 2018 04:58 PM, sonfire11 gmail com
<mailto:sonfire11 gmail com> wrote:
Hi,
I will soon be a business owner. I want to know the
benefits
of using Ubuntu 18.04 over Windows 10 for general
business
scenarios. What are the pros/cons? What is better
from an
accessibility perspective? What financial record
keeping apps
are accessible? What about presentations?
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