Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Adam Tauno WIlliams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:25 +0200, Clayton wrote:
> > A rough glance over the forum would indicate that iTunes, CAD and
> > various mobile phone interfacing/management tools. (xxx PC Suite).
>
> iTunes is a really sticky point for a lot of people... a couple I have
> been helping migrate to openSUSE have got hung up on this recently.
> Songbird comes really close in interface, but as usual... as in the
> same as with Banshee, Amarok etc etc... it only works with a few
> iPods... cannot find the iPhone and so on... plus without iTunes you
> cannot properly manage your iPhone.. no firmware upgrades for example
> (in my experience using VMware or VBox to flash your iPhone is a great
> way to break it - the 4 or 6 reboots the iPhone does during a firmware
> flash don't work correctly because the Linux host intercepts the USB
> device before handing off to the VM... and that breaks the flash
> process).
>
> iTunes for Linux (or some fully compatible equivalent that is more
> than a media player that looks iTunes-ish) would be a huge improvement
> for the casual desktop user.
>
>
> > - FIBU/accounting software. double-entry book-keeping etc.
>
> Getting something like CA Simply Accounting (or a compatible
> equivalent.. SA is a lot more than QuickBooks or other single user
> bank balancing software) working in Linux would be great... and
> working right, not hacked and tweaked by an expert.  If it worked I
> know of at least one business that would migrate off Windows without a
> second thought.

Does anyone know if any of the Open Source ERP packages
(<http://www.openerp.com/>, <http://www.openbravo.com/>) provide
functional accounting modules?   According to their docs they seem to
but I've never seen any real third-party reviews.

Sadly I think these are strictly web based and would thus be rejected
out-of-hand by most accounting departments/types [web apps are really
bad for data-entry intense operations].

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