Just to start a stir... Has (does) anyone tried running QB under a Wine sesion on Linux ? I believe I read somewhere that the QB database is fussy about being on a FAT32 or NTFS formated HD but.. if I could get it running under Linux wine then another reason for suffering windows is taken away. :¬)
Cheers Pete
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I've been using windows for quite some time now and to be quit frank I am not suffering.
huh?
You simply don't know because you haven't tasted freedom.
Double huh?
I'd talk to these people:
Ah ha... I guess the only thing would be to fire it up and see then. Cheers Pete
Yes I have and it tastes like chichen.
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Tally ho Pete.
It also tases like chicken, and sometimes if pared with good wine teen spirit.
Linux. Ah, yes. I've heard of it. A knock-off of a 40-year old operating system designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone company and which, according to the latest numbers I've seen, runs on 0.86% of desktops.
This is roughly equal to the number of people afflicted with Chastic Fibrosis, a disease usually found in foxes. I'm not sure of the overlap.
To answer your unasked question, application software is totally indifferent to, and has no knowledge of, the file system in use by the operating system.
FAT32 or NTFS formated HD but.
QuickBooks uses SQL Anywhere under the hood, which runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Netware, Solaris, and a range of other UNIX variants. As such, in theory, database should not be the weak link in this case.
FAT32 or NTFS formated HD but.
Sorry, should have added it's QB2004 which I think was the last of the non SQL database versions.
Reminds me of the saying by the venerable Samuel Johnson:
"A woman in the pulpit is like a dog raised up on its hinder legs. It is not surprising that it does it poorly; what is surprising is that it would want to do so at all."
So using F/OSS is freedom? By that same reasoning, shouldn't you be using some F/OSS accounting software instead of Quickbooks?
Intuit is every bit as proprietary as Microsoft. Same vendor-lockin, same forced upgrades, same reluctance to use a standard format, same reluctance to share data with other applications.
So if you are going to use an obscure proprietary desktop OS for the sake of freedom, why not go the whole distance, and use some obscure desktop application to go along with it?
QB has become the defacto standard.
Just like windows is also the defacto standard for desktop OSes.
If you want to break away from monopolistic proprietary software companies, then you need to break away from intuit, as well as microsoft.
Don't get me wrong, I am not arguing that this is a practical thing to do. I am just saying that if you want to enjoy the freedom of foss software; then you need to break away from both microsoft and inuit. If you want such freedom, it doesn't make sense to only break away from microsoft.
Ah!!!! the freedom of foss software, better than getting laid. Not.
Although QB will not run reliably under Wine, I think that msie6 will run reliably under wine. So you should be able to run QB online edition with Linux.
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