On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 20:14, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Where did you get it from? I cannot find it in the portage-tree. I built this outside the portage system.
Sources:- ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.5/source/quasar-1.4.5_GPL.tgz Documentation:- ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.5/manuals/quasar_install-1.4.5.pdf ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.5/manuals/quasar_guide-1.4.5.pdf ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.5/manuals/quasar_reference-1.4.5.pdf ftp://ftp.linuxcanada.com/pub/Quasar/1.4.5/manuals/quasar_features-1.4.5.pdf Manuals for the Point of Sale non-Free program modules in the same dir. > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:39, Robert Fisher wrote: > >>On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:29, Barry wrote: > >>>Review coming in Tux Issue 3 being emailed today, did you subscribe? > >> > >>Yes I did. > > > >The article has piqued my interest sufficiently to download the sources > > and try it out. It's building satisfactorily. > >More to come. My 'more to come' initial opinion is that the Joshua Bentham article in the online TUX Magazine is a fair but incomplete review. The size of the Small to Medium sized Business he is talking about would not be considered "Small" in the New Zealand situation. This is not software for the One Man Band ( plus a couple of helpers ) type of operation we see here in NZ. As far as I could see from a very quick look and play:- The user would have to be fairly knowledgible about accounting practices and be prepared to invest a fair amount of time learning the particular quirks of the system. There is extensive online help which appears, at first sight anyway, to be pretty helpful. The format of the printed invoices looks nice. The transactions are posted directly to the database, i.e. there does not appear to be any concept of batching up transactions before posting them. There does not appear to be a simple way to initialise the lists of customers and vendors in the Sales and Purchase ledgers. Note that I have not examined the code at all, and thus cannot comment about how data integrity is preserved over a system crash. i.e. power-failure. I will probably be looking into the package in more detail in the future. ( Commissions would be welcome ) -- C. S.
