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Re: [Sheflug] Quicken
I have no experience of Quicken but use Quickbooks 6 for windows. I am
currently trying Wine out and have managed to run quickbooks under this
without digging in to the wine configuration file and mosts things worked
apart from printing (but the printer was on a network so not surprising
with a default configuration). I am planning to configure this in more
detail and should hopefully be able to print in the not too distant future.
At 13:45 11/10/02 +0100, you wrote:
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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