Hi,

Thanks for all your replies. So, it means Devuan is better than using Wheezy.


Edward

On 08/03/2016, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:53:51AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>> On 08/03/16 06:09, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As I am slowly converting my installation into Devuan, I would like to
>> > ask what others use to access their bank accounts, to pay bills only
>> > and other money related activities.
>>
>> I use iceweasel - on my wheezy laptop currently (but that's only because
>> it's a pain to change and losing NetworkManager will hurt because it
>> made vpn's easy and we don't have any easy systemd free replacement for
>> that yet).
>> >
>> > Until now I have used Debian Wheezy. Is DEVUAN secure enough for
>> > financial transactions? If Devuan has adequate security I can start
>> > using it to pay my bills online and to make my occasional purchase
>> > online.
>>
>> Your biggest security risk is the web browser, and given that systemd
>> security risks/protections are relatively unknown I'd suggest that
>> Devuan Jessie is a much more known quantity and secure then Debian
>> Jessie, and very much on par if not better then Debian Wheezy.
>
> I'm using Devuan Jessie on my laptop, currently doing web stuff with
> Iceweasel. Yes, even online banking.
>
> I used to use chrome, but Google dropped support for chrome on my
> machine, since its a 32-bit Intel system.
>
> Anyone know how to tell roxterm not to use chrome as its default
> browser? I've told xfce, and it's now calling firefox, but roxterm
> still thinks that when I mouse onto a URL and click "open in browser"
> that I soud use chrome.
>
> I'd like to try Midori, but it lacks a few features I use extensively
> when browsing my own file system -- such as sorting directories
> alphabetcally, so it's easier to find files in the list, instead of
> randomly.
>
> -- hendrik
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