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Re: [Sheflug] Quicken legacy problem - was GnuCash configureproblem with Mandrake
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 13:21, David Holden wrote:
> 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.."
Yeah, this is something I've been following a bit on the various
forums/fora. Not Lindows specifically, but whether or not Wine etc. can
run Quicken for me. I think mixed levels of success would be an
accurate summary. Some people simply don't get it to work. Others do,
but with problems.
Perhaps this is a route to go down though. I could try it, and at worst
I could always fall back on the Windows machine. Or have Lindows done
something over and above Wine to make it work well(ish), as far as you
know? Perhaps I should install Lindows and try it? Assuming they
haven't broken everything in order to get Windows stuff to work; I don't
know anything about Lindows and what system you get. LSB? I'll check
it out... thanks for the headsup.
Neil
> 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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