Re: gEDA suite vs my creaky old Protel Client 3.5?

Joel Kolstad wrote: 
"Chuck Harris" <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, let's see, Quickbooks should be able to run under wine, and there is
certainly an equivalent package to Quickbooks, perhaps gnucash?


Does it read Quicken files? 

I don't know, but I think gnucash was meant as a replacement for Money.
I haven't had time to investigate it fully.  There is also something called
abicash, IIRC.  The target is there, it will be hit.


A BIG reason people resist changing to Linux -- even when the tools are
arguably 'good enough' or even as good as the PC versions -- is that they have
hundreds or thousands or hours invested in creating their data and they don't
want to re-enter it all.

Sun was very smart in insuring that OpenOffice could read and write -- most -- Microsoft Office files.


If you do get
another box to run linux, install VNC on both it and the 'doze box, and you


can

run all of the 'doze applications from a window in the linux box over the
ethernet.



My experience with VNC is that it still has various minor 'glitches' where the
screen doesn't always refresh quite right.  I mean, for free I'm not
complaining -- it's an excellent product and I love the ability to control a
machine remotely.  However, it's just not as 'usable' as either an X Server
connection or a Windows Remote Desktop (aka Terminal Server) connection.


'Taint VNC's fault.  Windows is inconsistant with the way it updates the screen.
The folks that wrote VNC have come out with a new release recently.  It appears
to work better than before.

If you could find a good X terminal for Windows, then you could run linux in a
window on windoze.  After all, linux's graphical user interfaces are all running
through the loopback ethernet interface.  It's nice when things are designed on
purpose.

What I do, is run windows on a laptop that is a VNC server.  Then I can keep a
windows window on my linux desktop.

-Chuck
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