On 18/09/06 09:34 +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote: > indeed I totally agree that there should be a positive comparison > between windows and gnu/linux. > but that is all. I agree that there is nothing like flash or autocad > in gnu/linux and for me, there is no good screen reader alternative.
There is flash, there are CAD tools, just that they don't scale up to the level of AutoCAD/Katia. > having said that I also used gnu/linux extencively and im waiting for > the orca screen reader to be released. once that is done, I think > windows will eventually vanish out of my house and office. I don't know your requirements for a GUI, but I do know of at least one totally blind server admin who exclusively uses the console and is happy with it (Deedra Waters). > talking about getting schools to use linux, well that's the way to go. > today the main reason why there is all this problem of gnu/linux is > not this and gnu/linux can't do that is because there are less > gnu/linux users on the desktop. this can only change if students are Personally, I would rather see Linux on the corporate desktop. And on government desktops. Once you have those in place, the rest of the world will follow. > thought gnu/linux right from their early age of learning computers. > there should be a huge generation using gnu/linux so much so that due > to its usability, new softwares will start to sproute. imagine a > photographer telling me "I have only learned gnu/linux, so while you > develop that xyz software for my customised needs, make sure it runns > on gnu/linux". Speaking of which, http://nixcartel.org/~devdas/photos/ladakh-photos/ Digital photos post-processed with ufraw and ImageMagick (ufraw can't do a good jpeg dump directly, so I had to route it via TIFF). Devdas Bhagat > that should happen very often. > by the way I think there are very few situation where hardware support > is not present in today's linux kernel. the days of heavy > incompatibility are by far gone. infact when the gentelman from M$ Winmodems, USB DSL modems, 3D video cards. It breaks _just_ enough that people don't like it. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
