On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:37:32 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Jesse D. Sightler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Russell Nelson wrote:
> >
> > My wife has been bugging me about MYM 12.0 -- she doesn't trust it to
> > be Y2K compliant. She wonders why I don't just switch *her* machine
> > over to Linux: "Isn't there a free accounting program we can run
> > instead?" "Sure", I confidently reply, "We can run GnuCash". She's
> > been bugging me for days to get it working. With help (/me nods at
> > list), I get it working. Then I demo it to her. She reads the help
> > documentation first (she's good that way), and tries to create two
> > accounts, give one an opening balance, and transfers some of it to
> > another.
> >
> > BOOM.
> >
> > gnucash 1.2.3 segfaults reproducibly. Do you want the full bug report,
> > or do you want to give me CVS write access (he says, holding the full
> > bug report hostage in return for CVS write access :).
> >
> > The wife is not impressed by GnuCash.
>
> Just a little friendly advice. :-) You may wish to consider trying
> Moneydance 2.0.3 for Java available at http://www.seanreilly.com/. It
> is quite stable, easy to use, and reasonably powerful. It isn't free
> software, but it is the best stuff that I have found yet that works well
> with Linux. :)
>
> Of course, once Gnucash becomes stable, you might choose to switch back
> to it. :)
The one that I'd (with suitable bias, of course) suggest in the interim
is CBB.
- It groks QIF.
- It already is stable.
- Curt and I worried about Y2K 4 years ago, so it won't be breaking
this year. (I probably still have our discussion about the matter
kicking around some place...)
- CBB has been mature for a while.
--
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead,"
p.265. (It's actuallly *very* easy, as prime numbers have exactly two
factors...)
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