On Sunday 20 May 2007 11:09:08 Les Mikesell wrote: > Don Russell wrote: > > MS money is abot the only app I have left on a Windows machine that I > > could otherwise convert to Linux. > > > > I found a FAQ that asks about "equivalent Linux programs", and this list > > was given as replacements for MS Money: > > > > GnuCash, KMyMoney, jGnash, MoneyDance, Grisbi, PLCash, Crossover > > > > Obviously I've not used any of these... does anybody have a > > recommendation? > > > > Ideally, I'd like a web interface to it so I could access/update it from > > any PC in my home. > > This discussion might be helpful. > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/export_from_ms_money Looks > like someone has it running under wine. I don't have much occasion to use WINE but a friend does all the time and it seems to be really easy to just install WINE and then install the Windows app. I tried it with a copy of Eudora 7 on my FC6 x86_64 setup and everything Just Works. Dave > > Note that if you really need windows programs you can run the free > VMware server with windows installed as a guest - and you can run the > separate console viewer on other machines to have remote access. > > Also, you don't need a web interface for remote access to linux > applications. Command line programs can be run via ssh (or putty from > windows) and X programs can be run remotely from anything else with X > (the free Cygwin version works on windows, it's included with Mac OS X) > or you can use VNC in various ways. The nicest way, though, is > probably freenx on the fedora side and the free NX client you can > download for most platforms from www.nomachine.com. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
