A First Gnucash LiveCD

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:41, Mark Gannon wrote:
> On Friday 01 December 2006 14:17, Derrick Hudson wrote:
> > Imagine combining this with VMWare Player
> > (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/) and this LiveCD Virtual
> > Appliance (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/284) to
> > allow current Windows users to use GnuCash without even rebooting!
>
> I've created a VMware implementation sutiable for use with VMWare's Player.
> If you don't already have it, you can get it at: http://www.vmware.com. 
> The address for the torrent file is:
> http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=3245
>
> > Did you include SMB/CIFS support?  I think that would be very
> > beneficial for (potential) users who are running Windows and run the
> > Live CD using VMWare.  This would allow them to store the data files
> > in their "My Documents" or wherever they feel comfortable on the host
> > Windows system.
>
> Samba support is included in both the VMware and ISO implementations, but
> only at the command line level.  I was unable to find a decent gui client
> in the Debian unstable repository.  If someone has a suggestion about one,
> I'm all ears.
>
> The files in this new torrent are compressed as tar.bz2.  So Windows users
> will need a tool like Winzip to uncompress them.
>
> Please let me know what you think!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Gannon

I'm a month behind the times, but I am not finding any peers or any seeds. 
I've looked at my firewall, but I'm sure that the teenager home from Uni has 
been downloading torrents OK.


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