[plug] Linux Accounting Packages

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Randal Adamson wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:35 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> Have you investigated GnuCash, GK-Ledger, AccPac, etc?
>
> see previous thread :) (OK, I'll save you - yes I have I mentioned
> GNUCash was good for SOHO.)
>

One thing that you did not mention in this thread (that I have seen), is 
whether you are registered for the GST; from memory, unless someone in 
Australia has written a supplementary module, GnuCash (as an example) is 
not GST compliant, due to the policy of trying to make it as universally 
useable as possible, avoiding localisations.

> I am running Debian (unstable), SuSe 9.3, NLD, SLES9, SLES9AMD64,
> Ubunutu, and a few others (yes, all seperate PC's). My main desktop is
> Debian or SuSe. Not that it is really relevant in the thread.
>

Actually, .... it was in a list of packages that came with Red Hat Linux 
6.2, I think, that I first noticed Accpac, that made me aware of it 
running on Linux before a local reseller of Accpac was aware that it 
would run on Linux. I think it was on a CD of Demo/trialware (or 
something like that) packages that came in the RH 6.2 Professioal 
shrinkwrap pack.

Apart from that particular aspect, from what I understand, as an 
example, Pronto is supported on RHEL and SUSE, but is officially 
supported only on those two distributions, but I believe that it is 
known to run okay on Debian (which implicitly includes Ubuntu, from my 
understanding).

Apart from that, depending on how far you go, there could be the issue 
of the availability of the packages for the particular distribution on 
which you want to run it (RPM's or .deb packages, etc), if you do not 
want to create your own build of it or deal with binaries, etc.

So, I think that the applicable distributions on which you want to run 
the application, is quite pertinent.

> Of course, I've tried googling and apt-cache search (I don't like
> synaptic) I'm a firm believer in RTFM and Google First.
>
> The purpose of my thread was to get other Plugger's opinions. Google
> only tells you what's there - it doesn't give you opinions - neither
> does synaptic.
>
>

My experience of searching with google, is that it can include in the 
results, reviews and how-to's (good example is searching on NX5000 and 
Linux), so it can give a good variety of opinions from different 
perspectives.

It can also retrieve mailing list archived postings, and can thus show 
what has previously been said on mailing lists, about a particular topic 
(like accounting software and Linux and Australia).

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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