HI All, There was a thread awhile back about a tax program that works under Linux. For the past several years I have been doing my taxes using TurboTax online (using a windows machine). I figure, why install a big bloated program I am only going to use once a year. I just finished my taxes, and I did it from Linux. TurboTax online didn't like Konqeror but was more than happy with Mozilla. I did not have to install any extra programs. The preinstalled stuff in SuSE 9 worked just fine. It sure is nice to say that I have finally made the jump (tried many times in the past few years). This computer does have XP but I never use it anymore (my kids do every now and then). Russ
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 21:31, Russ wrote:
HI All,
There was a thread awhile back about a tax program that works under Linux. For the past several years I have been doing my taxes using TurboTax online (using a windows machine). I figure, why install a big bloated program I am only going to use once a year. I just finished my taxes, and I did it from Linux. TurboTax online didn't like Konqeror but was more than happy with Mozilla. I did not have to install any extra programs. The preinstalled stuff in SuSE 9 worked just fine.
It sure is nice to say that I have finally made the jump (tried many times in the past few years). This computer does have XP but I never use it anymore (my kids do every now and then).
Russ
I used turbo tax last year on Linux via Crossover Office. Tom
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:34 am, Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 21:31, Russ wrote:
HI All,
There was a thread awhile back about a tax program that works under Linux. For the past several years I have been doing my taxes using TurboTax online (using a windows machine). I figure, why install a big bloated program I am only going to use once a year. I just finished my taxes, and I did it from Linux. TurboTax online didn't like Konqeror but was more than happy with Mozilla. I did not have to install any extra programs. The preinstalled stuff in SuSE 9 worked just fine.
It sure is nice to say that I have finally made the jump (tried many times in the past few years). This computer does have XP but I never use it anymore (my kids do every now and then).
Russ
I used turbo tax last year on Linux via Crossover Office.
'Nice to have confirmation that TT will work on Crossover. I haven't bought it because I can't justify the cost for 1 application that I'd use once a year. :) Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:31 am, Russ wrote:
HI All,
There was a thread awhile back about a tax program that works under Linux. For the past several years I have been doing my taxes using TurboTax online (using a windows machine). I figure, why install a big bloated program I am only going to use once a year. I just finished my taxes, and I did it from Linux. TurboTax online didn't like Konqeror but was more than happy with Mozilla. I did not have to install any extra programs. The preinstalled stuff in SuSE 9 worked just fine.
It sure is nice to say that I have finally made the jump (tried many times in the past few years). This computer does have XP but I never use it anymore (my kids do every now and then).
Concrats! I dumped MickySoft like the bad habit that it is sometime ago. I don't know of a tax package that will run under Wine, and certainly there isn't one available for Linux - yet. I've been "working" on 1 particular author who DOES have the ability to write such software, but I can't get a positive answer out of him. :) Anyway, I used TaxAct this year - seems to work well enough on-line. Printed Fed. filing is free, and a printed state filing is just $7.95. Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [040211 21:46]:
On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:31 am, Russ wrote:
HI All,
There was a thread awhile back about a tax program that works under Linux. For the past several years I have been doing my taxes using TurboTax online (using a windows machine). I figure, why install a big bloated program I am only going to use once a year. I just finished my taxes, and I did it from Linux. TurboTax online didn't like Konqeror but was more than happy with Mozilla. I did not have to install any extra programs. The preinstalled stuff in SuSE 9 worked just fine.
I too couldn't pay out the cash for the bloated version of TT. So I did it online. The weird thing that I don't understand is that Turbotax online worked wonderfully with Safari which is what I used for the whole process. Why wouldn't it work with Konq since they are *suppose* to be the samething. It couldn't be as simple as a user string being sent so TT.com didn't understand how to serve Konq..that would be silly. I really wonder why both wouldn't work. I live for the day that all this crap works together regardless of platform. It's such a drag on the progress of technology in general. -- Linux User #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."
On Thursday 12 February 2004 1:34 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote: [snip]
I too couldn't pay out the cash for the bloated version of TT. So I did it online. The weird thing that I don't understand is that Turbotax online worked wonderfully with Safari which is what I used for the whole process. Why wouldn't it work with Konq since they are *suppose* to be the samething. It couldn't be as simple as a user string being sent so TT.com didn't understand how to serve Konq..that would be silly. I really wonder why both wouldn't work. I live for the day that all this crap works together regardless of platform. It's such a drag on the progress of technology in general.
You are correct, of course - it "all" SHOULD work seamlessly! But, none of it will as long as people like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are in control of large corps. That is, knuckleheads with super-sized egos who couldn't care less about anything except power over others. Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
* Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [040212 00:01]:
I too couldn't pay out the cash for the bloated version of TT. So I did it online. The weird thing that I don't understand is that Turbotax online worked wonderfully with Safari which is what I used for the whole process. Why wouldn't it work with Konq since they are *suppose* to be the samething. It couldn't be as simple as a user string being sent so TT.com didn't understand how to serve Konq..that would be silly. I really wonder why both wouldn't work. I live for the day that all this crap works together regardless of platform. It's such a drag on the progress of technology in general.
You are correct, of course - it "all" SHOULD work seamlessly! But, none of it will as long as people like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are in control of large corps. That is, knuckleheads with super-sized egos who couldn't care less about anything except power over others.
Yes. But Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer don't have much to do with Safari working fine with Turbotax.com and Konqueror not working with it as the previous poster said. They are the same rendering engine an Apple has returned it's changes to the KDE developers. But then again I've noticed that Konq screws up while trying to display the CSS used by livejournal while Safari has no issues with this. Even Konq 3.2 can't do them correctly. *shrug* But this is one time when Microsoft and it's upper management have nothing to do with the issue. :( -- Linux User #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."
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