You are looking for Kapitol - It is supposed to be like Quicken only for Linux.
There is NO "try before you buy" version.
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/?dhtml_ok=1
-----Original Message -----
From: Neal Lippman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:59:27 -0500
Subject: [expert] Checkbook package for Linux
> A few weeks (?months) ago, I recall reading an announcement on, I think,
> slashdot, about a company that was producing a quicken-like financial
> management / checkbook program for Linux. While not a quicken clone per se,
> looking at their website strongly suggested it was going to be a quicken
> equivalent for Linux. They were planning a beta release around March 1 and a
> real release around September 2001. It is not freeware / open source, but
> looked cheaply enough priced to be worth a look at. Unfortunately, I failed
> to bookmark the link and now I cannot find any references to it anywhere. 99%
> of all search results on this topic just point me to GnuCash. (Btw, anyone
> using that under kde and find it to be stable and worth moving to from
> Quicken?).
>
> With the above vague description at hand, did anyone else see this item and
> remember where/what it was? I would very much like to try out this software,
> becase Quicken is just about the only thing causing me to boot up my old
> Windows computer anymore, since email, web, editing are so much faster and
> more pleasant on my new linux system anyway.
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> Neal
>
> Btw: The "other" thing keeping my booting up my old Windows machine is MS
> Outlook. I have a ton of archived emails in .pst files, and unfortunately the
> proprietary nature of MS's .pst files makes it hard to move the data over to
> Linux, since the one format outlook WON'T write out is an mbox file.
>
> I am 80% done with a program that will run on a windows system, access your
> outlook message store (using the outlook com components) and rewrite each
> folder to a separate file in mbox format. The only thing left to do to handle
> mail folders is to figure out how to write the mail message itself (eg the
> mail headers, which I have to built "by hand" as outlook either does not keep
> them once a mail message is parsed into .pst format or does not provide
> anyway to access them as such). Anyone expert on mail headers who could help
> me to finish that part of the program please drop me a line. I can already
> parse all the folders and accumulate the needed info, I just need to format
> it for output.
>
> Alone with same, anyone expert on vcard format let me know - I can also parse
> the contacts folder, and it would be nice to output a big vcard file with my
> >500 contacts and import it directly into KAB.
>
> Neal
>
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