Switching from Quicken to gnucash.

Charles Stroom charles at stremen.xs4all.nl
Mon Aug 13 17:14:21 EDT 2007


On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:30:42 +0200
Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de> wrote:

[...]
> 
> No need to buy a VMware Workstation licence. Vmware Server is
> available free of charge from the VMware web site and should be
> absolutely sufficient for your purposes. As I said there is also QEMU
> which is GPL.

Thanks for the info, I did not know that.  I never looked even at vmware
server, thought it was for heavy industrial applications.

> 
> > Fortunately, I got vmware 4.5 to work again, so for the time being,
> > there is no problem.  I am anticipating a future, hence my eyes on
> > gnucash. 
> 
> My suggestion to use a virtual maschine was meant to give you a viewer
> for your historical data while you start using GnuCash so that you
> don't speed a lot of effort to import your old data into GnuCash.
> 
> > The native system on my PC is Linux, avoiding M$soft as much
> > as possible.
> 
> Thats why I suggested to use Wine inside your VM.

OK

>  
> Manfred

Cheers,

Charles

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