Windows -> Linux

[Dave Stevens]

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 at gmail.com