On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 07:27:38AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all your replies. So, it means Devuan is better than using Wheezy.

My server is still running wheezy, but more because I haven't gotten
around to upgrading it than that I have any particular worries about
Devuan jessie.

-- hendrik

>
>
> 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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