Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Introduction

Linux Links ^ | 30 April 2021 | Steve Emms

[ShadowAce]

I'm gonna be out of the house for a few hours today--just so you know I'm not ignoring anyone :)

[woweeitsme]

Ping

[Pollard]

Correct link to Free & Open Source Software; https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software/

[Codeflier]

Always fun

[beancounter13]

Bump

[ThunderSleeps]

Linux runs great on hardware regardless of its age. Hundreds of millions of people rely on PCs that are several years old or even older.

I can attest to that. One of my systems I'm running Manjaro (KDE) on is a Sony Vaio PCG-61A12L (circa 2012) with an ancient i5 processor and 6 GB of memory. Manjaro isn't even considered a lightweight distro.

I don't use it every day but I could for routine stuff like email and web browsing. The HDD is nearing end of life. Even after it eventually goes I'll still be able to boot Linux from a thumb drive and use the laptop once in a while - mostly I just use it when I want to ssh into another machine but don't want to be at my desk.

[budj]

"LINUX" is an acronym: Linux Is Not UniX

[Poser]

Thanks for the link to the available software. I’m sad to see that there isn’t any GUI free accounting software on the list. The command line Ledger app is interesting for us DOS 3.0 and UNIX veterans but most users won’t find it useful.

I guess if you want good accounting software, you have to pay for it. I still use a 7 year old version of Quickbooks Pro in general journal mode. It’s clunky but effective.

[Eagles6]

Bttt

[Poser]

I’ll have to try SQL-Ledger for bookkeeping. It may be complete enough for small business general journal, A/R, A/P, etc.

[Pollard]

GNUCash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCash

https://www.gnucash.org (Appears to not be working)

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash

Not as polished looking as the retail programs and maybe not as intuitive but it is full featured.

GnuCash 3.x is known to work with the following operating systems:

GNU/Linux — x86, Sparc, PPC
FreeBSD — x86
OpenBSD — x86
MacOS — Intel, Versions 10.9 and later

[Openurmind]

Thank you. :)

[Pollard]

Quite a few videos on gnucash including Intros; https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gnucash

[kanawa]

Give me a poke if you'd like to be added to the Ping List.

[johngalt42]

You can install WINE on Linux and be able to install Windows based programs. I used WINE to install my financial program, because they only had WIN and MAC versions.

[Openurmind]

You should be able to use your Quickbooks in a VM with Linux. And I haven’t tried it, But quickbooks might actually run in “playonlinux” Which boots a semi VM environment to run windows apps.

[Openurmind]

Yep... Wine + playonlinux has worked pretty well for a lot of windows apps.

[AppyPappy]

Our mainframe is Linux

[Openurmind]

The older machine capability is incredible. It can revive a machine that windows would consider a dinosaur. Don’t throw out those old machines... Load them with linux and make them like new again. I installed Linux Mint 18.3 and the full cinnamon package on a 2002 emachine with only 2 gigs of ram and it worked like a brand new up to date machine. Slow on graphics but it actually worked just fine for browsing and such.