tlug: More SOHO

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

Ok, TJH, since you were getting worried about the disco revival getting out
of hand . . . 

I woke up in a SOHO doorway
a file server gnu my name.
It said you can do a download tonight
then take your notebook and walk away

Gnu are you?  Gnu Gnu, Gnu Gnu!
Gnu are you?  Gnu Gnu, Gnu Gnu!

:-)

I just saw something interesting.  It's called Gnu Cash - the
Gnu way to manage your money.  This is a merger of several competing
projects, including X-Accountant.  Rather than duplicate each other, they
have pooled their resources to produce just one killer product, something
that could probably only happen so easily in free software.

Gnu Cash will be a Quicken type of program, and what they have so far looks
quite impressive.  It will be ported to gtk/gnome and emacs.  Right now,they
have screen shots of the motif version and the gnome version (those look
good!).  They are also committed to i18n, so it will be usable anywhere,
with any country's currency.

This is going to be a really killer project.  The only bad news I see is
that 1) they say it isn't stable yet, so for now people who need stability
should use X-Accountant, which is.  On the other hand, what a lot of open
source authors call unstable is as good as lot of shrinkwrap stuff in your
local software store :-)  2) It's bad news for  Quicken :-)

For all the details, take a look at:

<http://www.gnucash.org/>

(Note to Scott: if you've got time before the TL release, I'd recommend
throwing this shrimp on the barbie; It's gonna be a winner).

Cheers,

Jonathan

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