linux accounting software or cheap winxp

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/16/2009 08:04 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 08:18 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>   
> . Use a workstation VMM (like VMWare Workstation, Virtualbox,
>> KVM/QEMU, Xen). Most can run Windows NT or Windows Vista. And
>> remember, performance is very much a factor of memory.
>>
>>     
> Unfortunately my laptop CPU flags do not include VMX.  I'm about due for
> a new computer for myself, so that will ultimately solve the
> virtualization issues.  I'd still like to avoid Vista.
>
>   
I did find that Virtualbox performs reasonably well with Windows XP on 
my non-VMX laptop.

GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed several. 
But, one option is to try to run your legacy system under WINE or 
Crossover Office. Moving from one accounting package to another is 
always a pain.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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