Linus Torvalds addressed this at the PLUG meeting last month, and as I recall his response was that he used Quickbooks online (cloud), and it worked fine via a browser in Linux. I imagine other accounting programs could be accessed the same way.
Randy Stapilus Ridenbaugh Press www.ridenbaugh.com WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings 503-852-0010 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Tim Wescott <[email protected]> wrote: > To date, I've been doing my accounting in Peachtree, on Windows XP, in > Virtual Box, under Linux. > > Windows XP is going out of maintenance, and I'm thinking this is a > sterling opportunity to purge that windows-ism from my office. > > Does anyone use an accounting program under Linux, with or without Wine? > My preference is for a program that comes set up for a small business; > something that's native-Linux is better, but something that's worked > well with Wine is acceptable. > > I am NOT looking for a suggestion on the lines of "oh, use a spreadsheet > (data base, paper ledger, whatever)". Accounting programs get sold for > a reason. If that's your input, thanks in advance and please hold it > in. > > -- > > Tim Wescott > www.wescottdesign.com > Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. > Phone: 503.631.7815 > Cell: 503.349.8432 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
