Does anyone know of an app like Quicken that will run in the Mandrake/Mandriva family?? I need a few more things to be able to wish a not-so-fond farewell to Gates and company. Pclos has solved most of my problems, but there is still the scanner, finances and a lot of Nero stuff that they have not ported over to Linux. Oh, well, maybe I can keep a minimal windows...

Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/, see if your hardware is in the supported devices. Should get you started.

Have a look at Gnucash: http://www.gnucash.org/.

Such as?

CD burning is well-developed in Linux--e.g I have used k3b with no issues

For many distros I have tried lately, scanning worked "out of the box". I recently switched to PCLOS and I have not yet tried there.

Quicken will run on Wine / Crossover office. I just started using Gnucash however and it's "good enough"

Thanks guys--that gives me something to look at. I used synaptic to install Wine, but something strange happened and I can't even find the app. So I'll try it again. There are other apps I'm running in Win that I would like to try if I can get Wine to function.

Bulliver: I have all of Nero--version 7 enhanced, all 182 meg of it. I make a lot of DVDs; I have hundreds of movies on VHS that take up a lot of shelf space, along with around 2000 books. so I'm trying to reduce some of the big tapes to little bitty DVDs. Part of the Nero complex is already in Linux form, but not what I need.

For the scanner, the sane page says that other models of the scanner are supported and maybe mine would work installed as one of those--tried it--doesn't work. A while back there was another distro I was looking at that did drive the scanner. It had something different from xsane. If I can remember which distro (I think it was slackware 11) maybe I can get that app..

I'll see about getting a copy of gnucash in case I can't get Wine up and running.

Again, thank you..

Bill H

BTW Pixellany--I do know what vacuum tubes and all those things are. I have an old receiver from the 40s that I use for short-wave listening. I'm about to retire it though--this area is not good for short wave--too many mountains..

for quicken there are a couple options.

gnucash - Double entry book keeping.. (true not as easy as quicken) http://www.gnucash.org/

moneydance - Java finance program, it's $30.00 to buy but runs well in Linux http://moneydance.com/

jgnash - java based finance app - http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgnash/

CBB - Check book Balancer http://freshmeat.net/projects/cbb/

Kapital - Again not free but reasonably priced http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/

Basic Books - reasonably priced ($20.00 )based on code that has been around for years... http://linuxledgers.com/index.htm