[H-GEN] X-accountant

[Anthony Towns]

Hello world,

Just for the hell of it, I went through my available file today [0]
looking for financial sort of things. [1]

I found some wimpy spreadsheet thing, which I ignored, some stuff for
a Matlab clone thingy, and...

X-Accountant.

Which seems to handle basic recording and reviewing of transactions [ie,
bank accounts, playing with credit cards and what-not] pretty well. It
allows import from Quicken files and everything.

Apparently, at least. I don't have much cause to play with this at
the moment.

It's a little, well, boring -- it's Motif based, not Qt or gtk, and it
doesn't support generating any pretty bar graphs or pie charts.

OTOH, it *is* GPLed [2]. It even apparently works with lesstif. It even
apparently works under non-Linux platforms, including Irix, SCO, and AIX.

If anyone's managing their finances with Quicken (or possibly MS Money),
you might like to make a copy of your database, and run x-acc over it,
to see how well it works. Those of you who'll have Far Too Much Spare
Time (tm) over the next couple of weeks might like to apply some basic
statistics knowledge and see if they can get it to generate pretty
graphs too. Or use it as a good way of learning gtk. Or how to make
rpms.

Cheers, 
aj, who read the ``Linux and World Domination'' editorial on slashdot,
    and thought people might like the opportunity to do more than just
    say ``Yeah! That'd be cool'' on slashdot... [3]

[0] /var/lib/dpkg/available; lists and describes all the packages
    available to be installed from the Debian archive.

[1] As is my wont. (I finally moved all my bank statements from the
    last ten months from the top of my desk into a folder today. I'm
    so proud)

[2] ...and obviously available from Debian mirrors everywhere. 
    There doesn't appear to be an RPM. It's available on sunsite
    under /pub/Linux/apps/financial/accounting/.

[3] That's `aj, who has too many other things to do already, thanks',
    to you. :)

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred.

      ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.''
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