On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:51 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > On 2/28/2007, "Howard Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> My own guess is that it's probably more of a distro thing. > >> > >> Should they support Debian, or Fedora, or Ubuntu, or Slackware, or > >> Gentoo, or Mandriva, or some minority distro, "and why not my own > >> preference"? > >> > >> Should they package to rpm, or apt, or tgz? > > > > Eh? What's wrong with HTML? > > Nothing, but I think some of the app runs on the client and is not all > web based. >
I think just about *all* of the app runs on the client. It's a windows program that only requires Internet explorer for the few times it contacts the ATO. I have downloaded the app the last few years and have managed to get it running almost perfectly under Cedega. (didn't try wine but I would be surprised if things were different). By "almost" I mean the app runs just fine, it takes your info, saves it perfectly, calculates your expected return just great, and then when asked to submit your info to the tax office... Falls on its head. This is just my experience, but if anyone has had different results, I'd love to hear about it. If the ATO could make their taxation thing web based, (and browser independent), that would be fantastic. But while the program is a client based application (and the linux userbase is still quite small), perhaps the *easiest* platform that they could support would be wine. Darren. P.S. the tax program failed on my windows computer at work in nearly the same way, but I suspect the reason was more of an excessively strict firewall policy than anything else. > > > > > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> > When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; > When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. > -- > Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
