From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from netsonic.fi ([194.29.192.20] helo=nalle.netsonic.fi ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17F6Af-000626-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:43:49 -0400 Received: from thp.local (qmailr@wanda69.adsl.netsonic.fi [81.17.192.69]) by nalle.netsonic.fi (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id g544hq022169 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 07:43:52 +0300 Received: (qmail 20775 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2002 04:43:50 -0000 Received: from nkl.local (qmailr@192.168.2.4) by gw.local with SMTP; 4 Jun 2002 04:43:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 30852 invoked by uid 1013); 4 Jun 2002 04:43:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jun 2002 04:43:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 07:43:45 +0300 (EEST) From: Ari Moisio X-X-Sender: armoi@nkl.local To: Speakup mailing list Subject: OT: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd) In-Reply-To: <006e01c20b70$45a85e60$a06fe9d5@microsoft.com> Message-ID: X-PGP-KeyID: 0x3FAF0F05 X-PGP-Key-fingerprint: 8A 91 96 E2 98 64 D0 4D 57 5E 3E EE 72 E9 DD D2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: armoi@sci.fi List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi! Octavian Rasnita 03.06.02: >Have you heard to read the "fine" manual of Windows, or of MS Office? >I never heard that. Is there fine manuals for windows at all? At least online helps are worthless 'cos they repeat same things with more msoft hype than original problem. Of course there are also a lot of printed books but they are useless for blind user. In contrast Linux has excellent documentation, both technically oriented man pages, good howto's and FAQ's. All these are accessible plain text or html. -- Mr. Ari Moisio, Niittykatu 5, 41160 Tikkakoski, +358-40-5055239 ari.moisio@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/arimo PGP-keyID: 0x3FAF0F05