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