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GnuCash 2.0.0 Released
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on Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:17 PM
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from the as-long-as-they-have-support-for-very-small-balances dept.
tashanna writes "After a very welcome GTK2 conversion and some additional feature hacking, GnuCash has released version 2.0.0. Other notable changes include: 'OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet, a "Hide account" feature to keep a better overview of your current accounts tabbed window functionality, the ability to create budgets within GnuCash using your account data, support for Accounting Periods, the data file format has been improved with respect to international characters data files with international characters can be transferred to other countries flawlessly, GnuCash Help and Guide are now fully integrated with the GNOME Help system (Yelp).'"
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Grendel Drago writes "The GnuCash team have released GnuCash 1.9.0.
After literally years of waiting, GnuCash is now a GTK2 application. The current version is unstable, and testers are needed."
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Cool! (Score:2)
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonCiesla | Last Journal: Thursday December 05 2002, @02:46PM)
Great for... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://andrewman327.stumbleupon.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 09 2006, @02:31PM)
Oh, and has TFA [gnucash.org] been
Re:Great for... (Score:4, Insightful)
Most of, and all of the best, 'Linux software' is available on Win32. Ports are made much more likely by open sourced code. So I think you made a bad assumption there
Re:Great for... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://nharmon.multics.org/)
Try and call up Quicken and ask them why...both as a financial institution and as a customer. You will get all sorts of laughable excuses like ".QFX makes the files you get from your bank more secure", or "we don't use OFX because it isn't secure". As if their additions to the file makes it secure (it doesn't, not even from a integrity standpoint because every customer gets the same, or similiar tags).
Re:Great for... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://stefanco.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 14, @11:09AM)
GnuCash is NOT available for Windows yet. It may be available in the future, or it may be possible to compile your own.
According to the wiki: "FAQ: Is it possible to compile GnuCash on Windows? A: Currently, no".
Re:Great for... (Score:4, Informative)
Not only is it possible to use GnuCash on Windows using Cygwin's X Server. That's how I've been doing it for some time now with very good results. The only problem I've ever had is with default window sizes for non-maximized windows--probably from having a much larger screen resolution on the Windows system than the Linux system that gets X forwarded.
As far as I'm concerned GnuCash is one of the big reasons I've managed to avoid bankruptcy in the past. It's standard approach to accounting and reports was very helpful for me when I got into financial trouble in the past. Seeing this announcement for 2.0 is heartening, and a good reminder that it's time to donate to the developers' beer fund (or whatever they spend donations on).
Any sarge backports available? (Score:4, Interesting)
Cool! (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.kukulinski.com/)
Port for MS Windows is possible with GTK2 (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://stefanco.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 14, @11:09AM)
With GTK1, a port of GNUcash for Windows was only a dream [gnucash.org].
GnuCash is pretty popular in the Linux world. It would be great to see this OSS project available to Windows users as well.
GNUcash (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Wednesday September 20 2006, @10:30AM)
GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances. GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even currency trades. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use, but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure balanced books.
That's from yum, although 2.0.0 isn't in the fedora repositories yet (well, not; livna, core, extras or updates)
Re:GNUcash (Score:5, Insightful)
Dentist Expenses:Health $200.00
You have,
Dentist Expenses:Health $200.00
Liabilities:Visa $200.00
Or even better,
Dentist Expenses:Health $200.00
Expenses:Taxes $15.00
Liabilities:Visa $180.00
Assets:Cash $35.00
Then when your Visa comes in, you reconcile your transactions. This is much, much better than a checkbook register or other back of the napkin accounting methods. The point is that ALL transactions are balanced. Money in = Money out.
Re:GNUcash (Score:5, Informative)
Not in portage yet (Score:2)
BBH
Gnome Office? (Score:4, Interesting)
kmymoney (Score:5, Informative)
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
I'll certainly give a try to Gnucash 2.0 anyway.
And you thought physicists were boring (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And you thought physicists were boring (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.kickthebobo.com/erotech/index.html | Last Journal: Friday October 26, @11:51AM)
1. Only one bank account (with a debit card) into which everything I make is direct deposited
2. No credit cards (they are EVIL)
3. Mentally remember how much you generally have in the account ($9786, OK, so I've got about $10,000 in the bank)
4. Confirm what you mentally think you have with your bank's automated phone system so that you have a fresh guess as to how much you've got
5. Never spend more than %50 of what you think you have in the account unless you have a REALLY GOOD reason
6. DO NOT bank online. Evar
7. Memorize the general amounts of your monthly charges, which should all be automatic withdrawals. ($54.99 for cable? OK so assume $60 a month)
In general it's all based on assumptions with a mental attitude that you have less than you actually do. So far it's worked wonders for my money situation in that I really don't have to think about it unless it matters at the moment. Because if there's one thing people like us HATE to do, it's thinking about money. Money is a nuisance in every way just as non-techs feel computers are a nuisance in every way. For those of you that have a strong interest in money, well... get help.
No online banking? Why not? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.bleeding-head.com)
Uh... why not? I've been banking online for years and never once had a single incidence of fraud. Of course, I switched to running Linux full-time a year or so ago, but even when I was running WinXP I had no problems. Of course, I also somehow avoided getting spyware or viruses, too (probably due to the fact that I was a devotee of Mozilla/Firefox). It's surprising to me to hear this kind of attitude on Slashdot, since most people here are clueful enough about security to know how to avoid getting burned.
Re:And you thought physicists were boring (Score:5, Insightful)
Unfortunately today, the costs of purchasing such major items necessitate the usage of credit. My mother at 49 is unable to get a loan to fix her house, because she's paid in cash her entire life and has no credit history. She'll just have to save up until she has enough, right?
While I appreciate the simpleness and ease of what you're promoting, fact is unless you are independently wealthy or have no interest in having a family (how are you paying for the kids' college?), you have to have some form of credit.
People like us? Sounds rather elitist...
(By the way, I gave up a career in IT to work with kids, so I'm pretty sure I don't have a strong interest in money.)
Want a Windows Version (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.greeneggpage.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 09 2006, @12:36PM)
Cash (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday November 12, @01:57AM)
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
the official announcement (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Saturday April 15 2006, @06:21PM)
Accounting in Linux Leaps Forward
*/GnuCash 2.0.0 milestone released to public/*
Personal and small business accounting in Linux will be easier and
better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.0.
This milestone release of the free, open source accounting program
includes generational advances over the last version. GnuCash 2.0.0 is
based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to
integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent
behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.
Major changes in the milestone release include;
* OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account
statements over the Internet.
* A "Hide account" feature to keep a better overview of your current
accounts tabbed window functionality.
* The ability to create budgets within GnuCash using your account data.
* Support for Accounting Periods.
* The data file format has been improved with respect to
international characters. Data files with international characters
can be transferred to other countries flawlessly.
* GnuCash Help and Guide are now fully integrated with the GNOME
Help system (Yelp).
The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will
make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.
GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap
to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality
with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.
*Playing With Others*
As with other leading Linux software that is designed to replace
proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive
accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also
programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs,
institutions and people as possible.
The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import
filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like
Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which
are used by both of those programs.
Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking
into the program. GnuCash 2.0.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can
directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.
The milestone release is available in 29 languages, including English,
French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will
have no difficulty operating the program
*Off on the Right Foot*
Users of the GnuCash 2.0.0 will notice a few changes when they start the
program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled
transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.
After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account
system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at
their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.
*Getting GnuCash*
GnuCash 2.0.0 can be downloaded from gnucash.org. It is available as
source code.
To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.
*http://www.gnucash.org *
*http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
*
*About the Program*
GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris
and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5
countries.
Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was
in 1998.
Where's KCash? (Score:2, Funny)
(http://crystalattice.gidblog.com/)
Re:Where's KCash? (Score:4, Informative)
Working download link (Score:1, Informative)
GTK2 (Score:2)
(http://pyscrabble.sf.net/)
What about us Brits? (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.davidrickard.net/)
easy install for MacOS X? (Score:2)
Does anyone know if there are binaries published? Gnucash site is down and google was of no help.
Yes, I know it can be built with fink, but even on my macbook that'll probably mean at least 6 hours of compiling, since gnucash has so many dependencies, it's not even funny...a friend says the old 1.x versions had almost 200 dependencies...and it'll be a fairly sizeable waste of disk space to have the entire /sw tree for fink sitting on my drive just for one program. this [caltech.edu] says almost 1.2GB of wasted space. That's a lot of disk space for just one program.
If we can have a 100-150MB self-contained package for gimp with double-click goodness for OSX, why not gnucash?
Moneydance (Score:4, Informative)
Oh, and yes it is java but the install was quick and painless and it runs quick (for me at least).
How well supported by banks? (Score:2)
(http://www.dasnet.org/)
I've been using MoneyDance for a while now (www.moneydance.com), and recently the OFX DirectConnect support has stopped working for Bank of America. And, naturally, all they tell me is "we don't support Moneydance" or "we don't support Macs," even though the app is using what should be well-defined, open standards.
So what've been people's experiences with the OFX features of GnuCash, and does anyone have any "magic words" they can share that've helped get customer service to properly enable/activate OFX features for non-supported money apps?
what about a QuickBooks replacement? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Is there a good OSS solution comparable to quickbooks?
Microsoft looks like a saint or even Jesus compared to Intuit. I hate Intuit.
Re:what about a QuickBooks replacement? (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Saturday April 15 2006, @06:21PM)
depending on what you're doing, gnucash IS a good replacement for quickbooks. It handles a/p. a/r and a reasonable slew of business reports. It does NOT do payroll, which may be a killer for a lot of people, but in my experience, quickbooks payroll wasn't all that. Once you've built a decent spreadsheet for doing payroll, you can format it into a
Re:what about a QuickBooks replacement? (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Saturday April 15 2006, @06:21PM)
hopeless. That's the only reason I maintain my stupid winxp dualboot setup -- for access to 4 years of business transactions that are forever locked up in quickbooks. bleh.
Why I'm switching from Microsoft Money (Score:2, Informative)
add no new features, just fix existing bugs.
Then the whole TurboTax 2002/C-Dilla copy protection debacle happened and I swore off Intuit forever.
Last week I purchased Microsoft Money hoping to get something like Quicken. Hoo boy.
In 3 days of usage so far, I've found:
1) Registration is only allowed with a checkbox reading "I agree to let Microsoft
contact me about updates and special offers." There is no way to uncouple bug
fix updates from Microsoft spam.
2) Money requires you to use Passport in conjunction with their online features and
in fact this is the default mode for Money 2006, resulting in:
a) Money storing your personal banking details (not passwords, but balances and transactions)
on Microsoft's servers by default,
b) Money "protecting" this information using Passport, a system that has been hacked
before and will be hacked again and which limits the length and therefore strength of your passwords,
c) Money insisting on turning the "store my things on MS servers" mode *every time* you try to
add another on-line service (i.e. a new bank or credit-card) resulting in
numerous repitions of the "add a bank", restore some semblance of privacy dance.
3) If Money has a way to automatically propogate changes for transaction categorization,
it isn't obvious or offered by default. If I drink a Starbucks coffee 6 times a month,
categorizing the first means nothing for the rest; you have to do every one by hand.
Quicken would forever remember these sorts of associations.
4) Despite apparently using Yodlee under the covers, MS Money doesn't offer
either a) a way to synchronize or import your data using Yodlee, or b) access to systems
available in Yodlee.
way to go (Score:1)
Release available at SourceForge (Score:2)
(http://www.ttuttle.net/)
Even though gnucash.org is being crushed by Slashdot, the release is still available at SourceForge [sourceforge.net].
too many libs (Score:2, Informative)
Budgets (Score:2)
(http://cameron.thorne.name/)
The wiki has a huge discussion about budgeting, but not much real info on what they actually implemented, how it works, or how to use it. I couldn't get to the gnucash main site to see if the online users guide has been updated, so maybe it is there. Can anyone confirm?
Porting (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://snow.prohosting.com/cookiepu/?slash)
Even if these things start to be able to hold a candle to MS Money, there are lots of people (like me) who have years and years worth of data in Microsoft or Quicken. Unless we can port the data, we probably won't really give these things a proper try.
I would imagine that this is HARD to do. At least based on the fact that Quicken tried to make a program to make the porting easier but it sucked (it failed to match up transactions properly - ie that the -500 that left my checking account is the same +500 that arrived in my brokerage)
In my opinion, most people who would use these tools, are the kind of people who were using Quicken or MSM before GnuCash came along. To get us to switch, we need to be able to port our data in a simple and robust way.
just a thoight...
This is good. (Score:2)
(http://s87365085.onlinehome.us/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 28 2003, @04:22PM)
Too much hassle to install (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.authoria.com/)
I attempted to install Gnucash 2.0 on a computer running CentOS 4.3, and after going through 30 minutes of dependency hell to get all the required programs installed so I could compile Gnucash, I finally got a fatal error stating that g-wrap wasn't working properly.
Maybe I'll try again later if someone creates an RPM installer, because I don't have time to mess around with the C compiler and obscure config files.
Sounds nice but... (Score:2)
GnuCash (Score:1)
(http://www.pcwizardsinc.com/)
Re:cash (Score:1)
(http://j.pribe.net/)
Re:What is this, Freshmeat? (Score:1)
(http://www.thesmokinglounge.net/)
Re:Support for Solaris (Sparc) (Score:2)
(http://www.asynchronous.org/)
We've taken care to make the code base as portable as possible (and to use -- relatively -- really old dependent libs) so it can compile on as many distros/oses as possible. We'd love to have someone helping get it working on Solaris.