Re: [Sheflug] Quicken legacy problem - was GnuCash configureproblem with Mandrake

[David Holden <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxx>]

I saw a demo of lindows at the linux expo, apparently can run windows
apps fine, although when I asked about stability I got "were still
testing that.."

 dave.


On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:58, Neil R Porter wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:16, Craig Andrews wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:36, Neil R Porter wrote:
> > > Well, I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I had no idea GnuCash was
> > > included on the CDs!  So, after having thunked :), I looked, and there
> > > it was.  Installed from there and all is well.  Apart from academic
> > > interest I think I'll leave my GnuCash install from source woes as a
> > 
> > D'Oh! I was going to mention it, but I figured that the CDs include 1.67
> > not 1.68. :-/
> > 
> 
> hehe, your figuring served an ace on this occasion, but I just wanted to
> basically test it out.
> 
> I have four machines here.
> 
> 1) server, running Mandrake 8.2 doing all sorts of nice things for me.
> 2) laptop, running Mandrake 9.0 (what I am typing this on, nice nice)
> 3) testbox, running RH7.2 so I can mess around with config on there
> before I mess up my dedicated server box out in the states :)
> 4) Quicken machine, running Windows XP Corp Pro and all that, that my
> wife has put data into for about 4-5 years now.
> 
> All looks fine and dandy apart from 4 doesn't it?  Essentially a dumb
> terminal apart from a couple of nice apps.  It feels to me like a wasted
> machine.  All those things I could be using it for but... I must stop
> getting like this, esp. after reading
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html .
> 
> So, this is what I wanted to look into.  A way to finally not 'need'
> Windows here.  I don't think I needed bleeding edge GnuCash to do this. 
> Just wanted to see how well GnuCash imported QIF files and what it
> looked like - Richard mentioned it was good at the last meet.
> 
> Unfortunately, while it imported the accounts perfectly (as far as I
> could tell), at the moment my thoughts are that my nearest and dearest
> would spit the proverbial if she switched on her machine and was
> confronted with Tux and GnuCash.  Shame.
> 
> Ah well, onwards and sideways I suppose.
> 
> Neil
> 
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