HJT Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 i'm trying to find some linux software that would be an alternative. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Gnucash seems to be the standard answer. I imported the office's secretary quicken account to gnucash when I migrated the office's computers to Linux and she seems to be handling it ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heather1113 Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 You should check out KMyMoney. It has matured so much and I really find it useful. I use it as a replacement for Microsoft Money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJT Posted October 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Thanks for the resonses, I see gnucash is included with Mandriva but I'm guessing KMyMoney is a commercial app. I'll have to do some googling on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Never used it, but I did some googling, and KMyMoney is part of the KDE project and released under the GPL and free of charge. I love Linux :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 (edited) i've tried these alternatives ... nothing is really free . your time and effort to get things to work is worth something kmymoney doesn't print checks i have been using moneydance for approx 1/2 year . you can demo moneydance for 100 transactions Edited October 9, 2005 by ddmcse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJT Posted October 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Printing checks isn't a concern since i do all my banking online but I'll check into it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 If you are just doing checkbooks and don't need all the other Quicken bells and whistles Gnucash is very good. You have to get used to the whole double entry stuff, but that is a simple adjustment. KMymoney is on the Mandriva rpms, the most recent on 2006. The one on 2005 is old and not so good. But the question you have to answer is what you are going to be doing. I still have one system that runs Windows because of Quicken and chess databases, none of the Linux financial packages has been able to meet my needs, but I'm a retired old fart with nearly 15 years of Quicken transactions and assets that neither Gnucash nor KMymoney have been able to handle. I should probably try Gnucash again (haven't for over a year) and see if it will import everything properly and do what I need. Try them all and see how they work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJT Posted October 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Thanks for the advice, I will try them all out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heather1113 Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Also, I forgot to mention that Quicken (most versions) can be run from Linux using Crossover Office http://www.codeweavers.com/ if you find that you simply like Quicken better than the Linux alternatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJT Posted October 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 thanks heather. i've installed gnucash and it imported my .qif files without a problem so i'm going to check it out and see how I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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