Wanted: a *nix replacement for Quicken

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Tue Jan 1 18:29:51 UTC 2008


debian wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 09:58 -0500, anthony baldwin wrote:
>> Wulfy wrote:
>>> debian wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:13 -0800, sdavmor wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> I just brought my dad up on on Mint v4 (gutsy compatible). He has
>>>>> been using Quicken on Windows Vista (which he hates BTW, hence the
>>>>> move).  What native "free" equivalent application would provide the
>>>>> same financial management and online transaction capabilities? He's
>>>>> totally open in terms of a replacement -- just trying to avoid going
>>>>> the Wine route for this functionality.  Thanks in advance.
>>>>> -- 
>>>>>     
>>>> There was a program that i used to use back in my KDE days which was
>>>> kinda like what you wanted. it kept track of my ballances and so on, i
>>>> just cant remember the name of it for nothing. it was like "Kwallet" or
>>>> something 
>>>>
>>>> --cj
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> KMoney2?
>> I think you mean KMyMoney. (Kwallet is a password manager thingy).
>> There's also gnucash.
>> I don't know if either has all of the capabilities of quicken, though.
>> I've never used quicken.
>>
>> /tony
>>
>>
> oh ok kmoney, im sorry.
> i much perfer kmoney over quicken though. i did find kmoney much more
> easier to use then quicken

I'll also check out Kmoney for my dad.  Thanks.
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