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Cc: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: Wife unimpressed -- 1.2.3 segfaults reproducibly
> 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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