There are a couple of options for you for financial programs. Not all
are free but will run on Linux. Nothing is as complete and polished as
Quicken but depending upon what your needs are, you may find one that
works for you.
Free - KMyMoney <http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html> -
Probably the best free one out there.
Free - GnuCash <http://www.gnucash.org/> - Another good free candidate.
$$$ - MoneyDance <http://moneydance.com/> - about 30 bucks. I used this
for a while and really liked it. At the time it was missing online
banking but that was 3 years ago. i know the developer and he seems to
be moving in the right direction.
$$$ - MyBooks <http://www.appgen.com/aptus/my_books_professional.htm> -
This is more of a "quickbooks" type of application.
Free/$$$ - Quasar <http://www.linuxcanada.com/> - More of a quickbooks
type of application
There are various other projects in the works but those are the ones I
know the best.
Tom
Steven H. McCown wrote:
All,
I've tried most of the major Linux versions since 1997/8 and have always
been frustrated by its complexity (as compared to Windows). I always
figured it out, but never wanted to spend my time debugging that which I
wanted to 'just work'. A couple of months ago, I started playing around
with Ubuntu's beta (Feisty) and saw a huge improvement. There are enough
ads (I mean articles) for this, so I won't dwell.
I still use Windows, but Linux is now my friend. I need a graphic of a
penguin waving a Windows flag, I guess. Anyway, here's what happened.
My wife's usb drive 'went bad' with a lot of important info on it. I
figured that a power failure or unplugging it before the safe removal
process completed was the culprit. I checked all the windows utils and
found many that for $59.99 claimed to solve my problem. This is an
extremely rare occurrence, so I didn't want to pay real dollars if there was
a free option.
Next, I started looking for Linux apps and came up with several options.
The options ranged from requiring a pretty intense understanding of how to
calculating byte offsets in the partition table and writing missing values.
The 1st rule of computer forensics is not to mess with the failing device,
so I continued looking.
Then, I came across a Linux command that allowed me to sector copy the usb
drive to a single file on the computers hard disk. I tried to mount the
file as a drive, but couldn't because the partition table was corrupted.
Finally, I found a free utility called "test disk" that allows recovery by
analyzing the disk (image file) contents even when the partition table is
bad. It worked like a charm and I was able to recover every one of the 205
word docs and text files. Obviously, the names were not the originals, but
every byte of the files' contents was recovered.
This was an amazing thing (for a diehard Windows user) is that 1) it all
actually worked, and 2) that it was completely free. I did have to spend 45
min or so to figure all this out, but I'm a CS guy and that's what we do for
fun, anyway....
At work, I haven't taken the time to setup the traditional dual boot.
However, I found that VMWare Server is now being given away for free. You
have to register and get a license, but the price seems right. My work
computer is an Alienware 3.8 GHz laptop with 2 GB of ram, so I don't really
notice any lag time. That makes it really easy to try things out.
I do have a question. Is there a good Quicken-type replacement for Linux?
Has tax software made it there, yet?
Just wanted to preach to the choir for a bit...
Steve
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