Re: [SLUG] Suggestions??

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 18:54:37 EST


On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:14:12PM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:

> Glenn Meyer wrote:
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions for financial applications - something
> to replace
> > Quicken or M$ Money - for Linux? Really just need something basic - don't
> > need to tack portfolios or anything like that - just a basic checkbook
> > program. Thanks!!
>
> Gnucash, baby.
>
> http://www.gnucash.org/
>
> My wife has been using it since about the beginning of the year for
> first her, then our bank accounts (after we got married) and I have just
> recently switched over the last 4 years worth of Quicken data from my
> credit union into Gnucash. The conversion was pretty painful, but worth
> it as I no longer have to boot into Windows to maintain my checkbook.
>
> I haven't yet seen anything that Quicken does that I *must have* that
> Gnucash doesn't. Quicken of course has lots of bells and dings and
> whistles that Gnucash doesn't, but I never used them.
>

I use Quicken 8 for DOS under DOSEmu. If someone would come out with a
console-based checkbook app, I'd be there in a second.

Paul



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