Newbie migration issues

[Rod Engelsman]

Derek Atkins wrote:

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>Rod Engelsman <rodengelsman at ruraltel.net> writes:
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>>Update on the first item. It turns out that I'm experiencing bug 
>>#120938. It must be some kind of weird library dependency issue or 
>>something.
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>No clue.  Maybe Josh will chime in.
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That's what I'm hoping. The original bug report was kind of old, though 
still listed as "New". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an FC3 
rpm available for 1.8.10 or I would update and see if that fixed it. I 
imagine it has something particular to do with my distro or the rpm that 
came with. Can I install an rpm for a different version of RedHat 
without blowing up my computer and killing the cat?


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>>In all honesty, if I wasn't having to learn Linux for a class I'm taking 
>>I would have chucked the whole exercise a few days ago. This open source 
>>stuff is just way too buggy and hard to deal with. One can only afford 
>>to burn up so much of one's time for the sake of feeling politically good.
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>Hey, you get what you pay for!  Seriously, nobody is paid to work on
>gnucash.  It's a completely voluntary effort, and all the developers
>have other work to do for real, paying jobs.  Moreover, there's a
>dearth of new developer blood to help fix bugs (let alone finish the
>port to gnome2).
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>Compare gnucash to other OSS financial apps and then let me know where
>we stand.  Note that if you have to pay for it, it's not OSS, so
>MyMoney doesn't count.  If we charged $30 for each copy of GnuCash
>we'd definitely have more resources to get more developers to actually
>fix some of the more glaring issues that we haven't had time to fix.
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>>Rod
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>-derek
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Oh, I understand all that. It's just that I've been using open-source 
stuff on Win XP for about the last year and all you hear on the mailing 
lists is about how wonderful Linux is. Well, the plain truth is that you 
still have to futz around with things mightily to get everything to 
work. And that point may never come.

What's needed is for some commercial outfit that's getting killed by MS 
to step forward and open-source an app that already works. That's how 
you got Mozilla and OpenOffice.org. And they're about the only things on 
the Linux side of this box that work reliably.

Rod