Re: [PLUG] Linux Finance Programs

[Andrew Libby <alibby@tangeis.com>]

Hi Jeff,

I'll second Eric's comments.  I've been using GNUCash on and off for the
past few years, and have been using
it for business needs for about the last year.  The interface does have
some quirks that you just sort of learn
to work around. 

I find the reports marginally useful, but I find myself wishing for
more.  Gnucash is based on guile (scheme).  The
reports are written in guile so you should be able to develop reports to
meet your needs.  I've found the documentation
to be somewhat lacking in this department so I've not been successful in
developing anything.

Overall it's pretty decent.

Andy



Eric Hidle wrote:

> I've been using GNUCash since February, and once you get the hang of
> the completely hokey interface, it actually works pretty well. It
> generates reports that are not very useful, though, at least not in
> the version I have (whatever came with FC4). It has a lot of
> business-oriented functionality that I haven't had a need to try, but
> it seems pretty powerful.
> E
>
> Jeff Watson wrote:
>
>> I know i saw this posted some time ago but i was wondering people's
>> opinions on finance programs. Setting up my house computer and it
>> seemed like a good idea to grab one of these. GnuCash seems pretty
>> solid and thorough- opinions? I also just hooked up with Verizon DSL
>> and i would say i am impressed at what they can crank over twisted pair.
>>
>>              -Jeff Watson
>>              -RedGibson@gmail.com <mailto:RedGibson@gmail.com>
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