Peter Collier wrote:

I'm after a book-keeping program that my son can use on linux. I've looked at what is available under suse and programs I've found seem to be more in line with personal finances, eg. kmoney, gnucash etc. I want something that is more in line with sage for windows but I don't want to be forking out for mswin and sage. Anyone seen or know of anything. I quick google comes up with some unknown vendors that want money off you and lots of books.

I don't know Sage at all. I went to their website... I've never seen so much text written without actually saying anything. It was a serious struggle to find out anything at all about the product they deliver. Linux Canada produces an accounting app called Quasar. They've been in the Linux accounting software business for quite a few years now. http://www.linuxcanada.com/ The have a fully GPL version (free but without support) and a full support version for what I think is a pretty competitive price (compared to Simply Accounting and other packages targeted at the same market segment) C

On Friday 10 February 2006 7:10 am, Peter Collier wrote:

I'm after a book-keeping program that my son can use on linux. I've looked at what is available under suse and programs I've found seem to be more in line with personal finances, eg. kmoney, gnucash etc. I want something that is more in line with sage for windows but I don't want to be forking out for mswin and sage. Anyone seen or know of anything. I quick google comes up with some unknown vendors that want money off you and lots of books.

Peter C.

No experience with TurboCASH but this may be of interest: http://www.turbocash.co.za/ Plus a recent article at Newsforge about them: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/09/1647217&from=rss Stan

In a previous message, Peter Collier wrote:

I'm after a book-keeping program that my son can use on linux. I've looked at what is available under suse and programs I've found seem to be more in line with personal finances, eg. kmoney, gnucash etc.

GNUCash has plenty of business-specific features. Indeed, I ran a small business using it for over 2 years and it's pretty good. It doesn't do inventory control but then few accounting packages do, and it does almost everything else (including invoicing, accounts payable/receivable, reporting etc.). Give it a whirl, and check out the manuals and websites. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 13:10 +0000, Peter Collier wrote:

I'm after a book-keeping program that my son can use on linux. I've looked at what is available under suse and programs I've found seem to be more in line with personal finances, eg. kmoney, gnucash etc. I want something that is more in line with sage for windows but I don't want to be forking out for mswin and sage. Anyone seen or know of anything. I quick google comes up with some unknown vendors that want money off you and lots of books.

I just came across this page, which lists accounting packages for Linux: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html There might be something interesting to you or a subsequent reader of the thread. Cheers, Dave