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Ben Holland challenged: > Basically the message is this: It's open sourced for a reason, if there is a > problem with it submit a bug or code up the solution and submit the code > changes for a review. Actually, at work I've been pioneering something that I hope to someday push out as an uber-distro installation/update environment. It's a multi-year effort, though, and currently a lot buggier than the things other people wrote that I've been griping about. (We open-source advocates are as hardwired to complain about other people's code as Boston drivers are to tailgate, cut off, and otherwise harass the rest of the drivers ;-) > As far as like money management stuff, have you looked at gnu cash? I > haven't used it yet but from people who have they say it's great once you > get use to it. IT IS NOT QUICKEN! ~Ben Yeah, I looked at Gnu cash a couple years ago. Unless you're in the financial-services business, you're not in a good position to keep abreast of all the proprietary technologies that are hitting the Web at the speed of light the past couple of years. Give Gnu cash another decade or so before enough of the online services stabilize to make an open-source tool as useful as one of the proprietary ones published by the likes of H&R Block or which can aggregate web services from the likes of eTrade, the FastLane and Bank of America. It's currently a rat's nest of protocols and the only places where any developers are putting meaningful efforts are on the vendors' web servers and/or a couple of widely-used Windows apps. No matter: that's where Xen/VMware and the hypervisor come in. You can have an 80/20 split between Linux-native and Windows-virtual apps these days, complete with copy/paste across windows running within either environment on the same desktop. -rich -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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